accentuate

verb

1. (transitive)To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
2. (transitive)To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.

   “our danger and insolation only accentuated the incompatibility”

   “These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.”

   “Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.”

   “Several digital effects are supported by Deck, ranging from a digital equalizer, which lets you accentuate or attenuate certain frequencies, to a stereoizer, which processes a mono- phonic recording to simulate stereo.”

   “Eating meat does not conform to God's original intention, and resorting to carnivorism merely accentuates an unattractive part of human nature.”

3. (transitive)To mark with a written accent.