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Accented Moderate

Accented has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Verb
1

simple past tense and past participle of accent

"She accented her voice slightly when she read the dramatic lines aloud."

Adjective
1

(used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch

"a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word"

2

bearing a stress or accent

"an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"

Related Terms
Antonyms
unaccented unstressed
Rhyming Words
ted sted nted voted muted fated sated cited sited meted noted outed lated usted feted anted acted bited doted bated
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