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Meanings of accented in English

Spanish
tónico

Used of syllables.

tónico

Bearing a stress or accent.

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Examples for "tonic"
1
The greatest beauty tonic in the world is the habit of kindness.
Possessed
2
Cordyceps has been used for centuries in China as a general tonic.
The Irish Times
3
Tell me about Viper Wine, the tonic -did it really exist?
Reuters
4
A potential banana skin turned out to be the best possible tonic.
The Guardian
5
She might have given Agrippa a tonic before he started his journey.
Daughters of the Nile
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