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.

• To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to something.
       
• His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job