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Word entry · 10 letters

foreground

Best crossword clue

"Make prominent"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/Part of speech verb, nounSorted defgnoorruStarts with FEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

Word origin

From fore- + ground. Compare Dutch voorgrond (“foreground”), German Vordergrund (“foreground”), Danish forgrund (“foreground”), Swedish förgrund (“foreground”), Norwegian forgrunn (“foreground”), Icelandic forgrunni (“foreground”).

Used in a sentence

  • Note the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.
  • Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death.

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