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Underline

verb

Give extra weight to (a communication). Synonyms: emphasise, emphasize, underscore.

Draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to. Synonym: underscore.

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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

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... 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

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Words linked to "Underline" : accent, stress, stroke, mark, punctuate, accentuate, underscore