Emphasize \Em"pha*size\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emphasized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emphasizing}.] To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.
emphasized adj : spoken with emphasis; "an emphatic word" [syn: {emphatic}, {emphasised}]