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Meanings of accented in English

Spanish
tónico

Used of syllables.

      tónico

      Bearing a stress or accent.

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          Usage of accented in English
          1
          Good morning. A warm, faintly accented voice came wafting from behind them.
          Timeless
          2
          At Margaret's left, two African students spoke in excellent, if accented, English.
          A change in altitude
          3
          A heavily accented voice asked whether he was speaking to Valerie Jennings.
          The tower, the zoo and the tortoise
          4
          But she heard Cha's voice, his accented English; his odd, fogeyish flirting.
          Edge of Infinity
          5
          All diacritical marks in this text are above the character being accented:
          The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
          6
          The beats were in four-four time, with the third beat slightly accented.
          A Voyage to Arcturus
          7
          The Irish-accented radio greeted her, then asked her to choose a channel.
          Fire With Fire
          8
          His English was lightly accented, and he spoke it perfectly in cadence.
          All the pretty dead girls
          9
          All mission assets-team ,vehicles ,armaments ,airtransport. Welsted's English was softly accented.
          Bones of the Lost
          10
          But these exceptions only accented the absolutely English dominance of the spectacle.
          London Films
          11
          After a few moments a calm, English-accented voice comes on the line.
          The Irish Times
          12
          The scheme of colour is low for Monticelli, the forms sharply accented.
          Promenades of an Impressionist
          13
          In heavily accented English, he told Timothy the call was for him.
          Phantoms
          14
          The hollowness of his cheeks accented by his swarthy complexion emphasized this.
          The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
          15
          Get that pencil out and try marking each accented and unaccented syllable.
          The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
          16
          She looked up enough to count eight pairs of gold-and-blue-accented tennis shoes.
          Nevermore
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          Spanish
          tónico
          Accented through the time
          Accented across language varieties
          United States of America
          Common
          United Kingdom
          Common