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accented

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accented in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. bearing a stress or accent
    "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"
    stressed  accented 
  2. used of syllables
    "a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word"
    tonic  accented 
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