reemphasizing

Stressing the point anew

Reemphasizing is stressing something again or with renewed force.

When a point has been made but needs reinforcement—because it was overlooked, forgotten, or remains contested—you reemphasize it: The coach kept reemphasizing the importance of footwork.

Also spelled re-emphasizing.

rhetorical

stressing

Emphasizing or feeling anxious

restating · reinforcing · hammering home · driving home · accentuating · punctuating · underscoring · repeating · insisting · pressing

pedagogical

reviewing

Examining something again

repeating · reinforcing · clarifying · going over · refreshing · reintroducing · consolidating · scaffolding · circling back · repetition

political

messaging

Sending written digital communications

speeches · rallying · persuading · propaganda · spin · framing · soundbites · repetition · platforms · rhetoric

Opposites
attention and stress

reemphasizingdownplaying

Diminishing perceived significance

de-emphasizing · minimizing · underplaying · understating · glossing over

repetition and continuation

reemphasizingdropping

Letting something fall

abandoning · letting go · leaving behind · setting aside · forgetting

explicitness and salience

reemphasizingburying

Covering with earth

obscuring · passing over · hiding · omitting · concealing

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emphasis, emphasize, emphatic, emphatically, overemphasis, reemphasize, unemphatic, de-emphasize, underemphasis

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