"point up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-point up.ogg [Australia] Forms: points up [present, singular, third-person], pointing up [participle, present], pointed up [participle, past], pointed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} point up (third-person singular simple present points up, present participle pointing up, simple past and past participle pointed up)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To emphasise or stress; to draw attention to. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-point_up-en-verb-ADbLLtta Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for point up meaning in English (2.0kB)

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