• lessen, tone, de-emphasize, reduce, ignore, mumble, depreciate, subdue, weaken, understate, forget, play down, lose, decrease, disparage, discount, diminish, deny, belittle.

Synonyms for Emphasize:

• n.

  •
  • lay emphasis/stress on something.
  •
  • feature,
  • matter,
  • figure,
  • signify,
  • lie at the heart of something,
  • predominate,
  • come before,
  • loom large,
  • dominate,
  • count,
  • important.
  •
  • put/throw something into (sharp/stark) relief,
  • make a production out of something,
  • throw something open.
  •emphasize (noun)
  • emphasise.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • emphasis,
  • speech.
  •stress (noun)
  • insist,
  • bring out,
  • make a fuss about,
  • lay stress on,
  • speak up,
  • belabor,
  • call attention to.

• v.

  •intensify (verb)
  • exaggerate,
  • intensify,
  • heighten,
  • sharpen,
  • stress,
  • magnify,
  • accentuate,
  • underline,
  • escalate,
  • deepen,
  • increase.
  •interpret (verb)
  • explain.
  •stress, give priority to (verb)
  • bear down,
  • affirm,
  • insist on,
  • dramatize,
  • point out,
  • assert,
  • make clear,
  • point up,
  • rub in,
  • enunciate,
  • highlight,
  • labor the point,
  • make emphatic,
  • pinpoint,
  • play up,
  • make a point,
  • articulate,
  • press,
  • limelight,
  • weight,
  • enlarge,
  • impress,
  • underscore,
  • HIT,
  • headline,
  • put accent on,
  • reiterate,
  • repeat,
  • spotlight,
  • mark,
  • accent,
  • indicate,
  • maintain,
  • punctuate,
  • charge,
  • dwell on,
  • pronounce,
  • make much of,
  • italicize.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • foreground,
  • virtual community,
  • outweigh,
  • angle,
  • boil down to,
  • overbalance,
  • stand out,
  • inflect.
  •
  • precede,
  • prioritize,
  • underpin,
  • remind,
  • override,
  • colonize.
  •
  • prevail,
  • weigh,
  • call for,
  • reign.
  •
  • community,
  • cap,
  • major.
  •
  • top.
  •
  • point.
  •accent
  • highlighted,
  • draw attention to,
  • under-lining,
  • drawing attention to,
  • highlights,
  • highlighting.
  •bring out
  • introduce.
  •bring up
  • throw up to.
  •exaggerate
  • Overdrawn,
  • Caricaturing,
  • Romanced,
  • overdo,
  • overestimate,
  • overestimates,
  • mis-report,
  • overemphasize,
  • overemphasizes,
  • loud talk,
  • scamming,
  • misquote,
  • scammed,
  • misquotes,
  • over-estimate,
  • overemphasized,
  • Misreport,
  • hyperbolize,
  • over-emphasize,
  • make too much of,
  • pretty up,
  • laying it on thick,
  • blow out of proportion,
  • misreporting,
  • overdraw,
  • overestimating,
  • misreported,
  • romance,
  • laid on thick,
  • Caricatured,
  • go to extremes,
  • overemphasizing,
  • overestimated,
  • Overdrawing,
  • lay it on thick,
  • lay on thick,
  • Romancing.
  •intensify
  • exacerbate,
  • heated up,
  • Intensate,
  • tone up,
  • pour on,
  • pour it on,
  • heat up,
  • heats up,
  • toned up.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Allegorized,
  • punch up,
  • calling attention to,
  • starred,
  • set off,
  • prop up,
  • extorts,
  • necessitate,
  • allegorizes,
  • headlined,
  • stand by,
  • put screws to,
  • illustrate,
  • put into effect,
  • Ostend,
  • IED,
  • propping up,
  • vivify,
  • shoring up,
  • bring home,
  • force upon,
  • soup up,
  • lend a hand,
  • Emblematized,
  • draw a picture,
  • fight for,
  • bring attention to,
  • Head-line,
  • triage,
  • setting off,
  • make plain,
  • Emblematizing,
  • headlining,
  • enforce,
  • give prominence to,
  • blow up out of proportion,
  • voice,
  • extort,
  • reinforce,
  • Typified,
  • Emblematize,
  • starring,
  • brings home,
  • lean on,
  • dwell upon,
  • make conspicuous,
  • overstate,
  • shored up,
  • forced upon,
  • leaning on,
  • stand up for,
  • propped up,
  • iterate,
  • pointing up,
  • souped up,
  • dwelling upon,
  • pleading for,
  • standing by,
  • Exerted,
  • Allegorizing,
  • i,
  • stood by,
  • involve oneself,
  • shore up,
  • strong arm,
  • aver,
  • Dragooned,
  • pillaring,
  • toughen,
  • allegorize,
  • crack down,
  • dragoons,
  • tarry over,
  • pillared,
  • stood up for,
  • made clear,
  • Dragooning,
  • making clear,
  • dragoon,
  • plead for.
  •punctuate
  • Intersected,
  • peppers,
  • Peppering,
  • Peppered,
  • pepper.
  •remind
  • called up,
  • bring to mind,
  • calls up,
  • brought to mind,
  • bring back to,
  • stirs up,
  • make one remember,
  • Re-collect,
  • jog one's memory,
  • calling up,
  • call up,
  • put in mind,
  • refresh memory,
  • stir up,
  • make one think,
  • stirred up,
  • call attention,
  • give a cue,
  • stirring up,
  • bringing to mind,
  • jog memory.
  •urge
  • impress on or upon.
  •voice
  • Inflecting,
  • intonate,
  • inflects,
  • give utterance,
  • Intonated,
  • inflected,
  • give expression.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • insistent,
  • reassert,
  • drive home,
  • definite,
  • linger over,
  • jut out,
  • elaborate,
  • note,
  • harsh,
  • bring up,
  • render,
  • home,
  • hear,
  • say,
  • single out,
  • insistence,
  • obstinate,
  • develop,
  • hard sell,
  • accent mark,
  • illuminate,
  • hold,
  • aggressive,
  • prove,
  • assertion,
  • bear down on,
  • inflexible,
  • impress on,
  • compelling,
  • lay down,
  • hard,
  • distinguish,
  • beat,
  • assert positively,
  • emphasizing,
  • accentuation,
  • set store by,
  • focus,
  • make an effort,
  • whet,
  • hot up,
  • bring,
  • believe,
  • light,
  • enhance,
  • lay emphasis on,
  • show up,
  • decided,
  • accenting,
  • hardy,
  • allude to,
  • labour,
  • intense,
  • idiom,
  • harp on,
  • avow,
  • concentrate,
  • advertise,
  • reaffirm,
  • tonic accent,
  • bring into prominence,
  • rub,
  • mention,
  • urgency,
  • promote,
  • overstress,
  • seek,
  • strive,
  • pump,
  • forceful,
  • present,
  • asseverate,
  • relentless,
  • ascribe importance to,
  • categorical,
  • care for,
  • interrupt,
  • emphasized,
  • belabour,
  • redouble,
  • persist in,
  • dwell,
  • display,
  • puff up,
  • state,
  • intonation,
  • rap out,
  • focus on,
  • hammer away,
  • durable,
  • impress upon,
  • spearhead,
  • enforcement,
  • star,
  • gritty,
  • pay attention to,
  • adjudicate,
  • discover,
  • point to,
  • emphatic,
  • put emphasis on,
  • undertake,
  • try,
  • tenseness,
  • augment,
  • value,
  • vow,
  • vehemence,
  • fast,
  • emphasising,
  • build up,
  • swear by,
  • insist upon,
  • word accent,
  • inflection,
  • note down,
  • flat,
  • efflux,
  • play,
  • quicken,
  • dogmatize,
  • leave a mark,
  • persist,
  • declare,
  • stick out,
  • examine,
  • strengthen,
  • hype,
  • publicize,
  • dialect,
  • determined,
  • raise one's voice,
  • mark up,
  • double,
  • Emphases,
  • urge.