emphasizing
- 1Present participle of emphasize.
The report keeps emphasizing the risks of further delay.
By emphasizing teamwork all season, the coach reshaped the squad's attitude.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the participle in progressive verbs (is emphasizing) and the gerund that names the act itself. Because emphasize is transitive, both keep a direct object with no preposition between: emphasizing the risks, not emphasizing on the risks. That slip comes from the noun phrase put emphasis on. Even after a preposition, as in by emphasizing teamwork, the gerund still takes its object the way a verb does.
emphasizing is a form of emphasize
emphasize, verb: To stress something or give it extra weight, drawing special attention to its importance. Full entry
- Forms
- emphasizeemphasizes he/she/itemphasizing -ing formemphasized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- emphasize → emphasizing: drop the e, add -ing
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