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/ˈəndərlˌaɪn/ Listen

verb

Underline v. t.

To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.

To influence secretly. (Obs.)

Emphasize or call attention to; highlight; as, Long waits at the emergency room underline the need for a larger hospital. "."

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Etymology of 'Underline'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Underline" Quotes from Famous Books

... underline a book till you are forty. Never memorialise what you were, your lovely innocence, your generous heart, your ardent hopes, lest the memorial be found one day by what you have become. Rosalie, finding that "Lombard Street," unearthed from lumber, in long after years, turned over the pages and from ...

— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson

... little dinner parties in this room, won't we? Interesting, vital people, who must all be good-looking and young. It will be a long time before I shall want to see anyone old again. Think what Alice Palgrave will say when she comes back! She'll underline every word if she can find any words. She wasn't married till she ...

— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton

... used in listing the 1914-18 war losses were compiled by the United States War Department. They are more or less accurate, but they underline the fact that for years on end the centers of western civilization concentrated their energies and devoted every means at their disposal to cripple or destroy fellow human beings ...

— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... not fear losing your oratorical reputation by being out-shouted. Should you feel disposed to accept the terms, one clear half the nightly receipt, pray forward an answer by return, that we may get out a woodcut of the small-clothes, and underline the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... see what the matter was. A stiff hand-to-hand fight followed. But every American attempt to form was instantly broken up; and presently the whole place surrendered. Drummond, who was delighted with such an excellent beginning, took care to underline the four significant words referring to the enemy's killed and wounded—all with the bayonet. This was done in no mere vulgar spirit of bravado, still less in abominable bloody-mindedness. It was the soldierly recognition of a particularly gallant feat of ...

— The War With the United States - A Chronicle of 1812 - Volume 14 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada • William Wood

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