underscore
B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
General verb
To emphasise or draw attention to the importance of something.
These anomalies underscore the need for a revised methodology.
Medicine verb
To emphasise the importance of a fact or point.
The handover was used to underscore the risk of falls identified during the admission.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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