Emphasize
Intensify
Intensify verb - To make markedly greater in measure or degree.
Usage example: intensified her efforts to preserve the town's historic buildings and landmarks
Emphasize is a synonym for intensify in speech topic. You can use "Emphasize" instead a verb "Intensify", if it concerns topics such as severe, increase, strengthen, emphasise.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- enhance and emphasize
- enhance and intensify
- point and emphasize
- point and intensify
- stress and emphasize
- stress and intensify
- concentrate and emphasize
- concentrate and intensify
- increase and emphasize
- increase and intensify
- accent and emphasize
- accent and intensify
- fortify and emphasize
- fortify and intensify
Common collocations
| power | emphasize power | intensify power |
| relationship | emphasize relationship | intensify relationship |
| effect | emphasize effect | intensify effect |
| moment | emphasize moment | intensify moment |
| Other words: emotions. | ||
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