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drive home vs accentuate

accentuate vs drive home

drive home and accentuate both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
drive home No No Yes No
accentuate No No Yes No
As verbs, accentuate is a hypernym of drive home; that is, accentuate is a word with a broader meaning than drive home:
  • drive home: make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
  • accentuate: to stress, single out as important
Other hypernyms of drive home include accent, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress.
drive home (verb) accentuate (verb)
make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something to stress, single out as important
carry out or perform put stress on; utter with an accent
Difference between drive home and accentuate

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