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acentuado

accentuated

adjective ah-sen-twah-DOH Rare

Also means

marked

Usage Note

Acentuado means made more prominent or noticeable—either literally (a word bearing a written accent: vocal acentuada) or figuratively (an intensified quality: diferencias acentuadas). The verb is acentuar. In phonetics it distinguishes stressed syllables.

Examples

"La crisis provocó diferencias acentuadas entre los grupos."

Natural Translation

The crisis caused accentuated differences between the groups.

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