"pointen" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From point + -en.",
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      "form": "pointens",
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      "form": "pointening",
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    {
      "form": "pointened",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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      "form": "pointened",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, Sporting Magazine, volume 18, page 419:",
          "text": "Rumour was right on the other tack too; the line was a stiff one—not a mere plastered and pointened make-up, but a regular home-made rough one, with some very curious doubles—a lane that was neither good to get into or out of — and a brook about a mile from home, with very much the same kind of recommendation.",
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        {
          "ref": "1926, MededeelIngen van den Dienst der Volksgezondheid in Nederlandsch-Indië:",
          "text": "Only exceptionally the teeth are pointened as is very common with the Papuas of New-Guinea.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Damon Knight, Orbit, page 249:",
          "text": "\"[…] Seriously, I think we ought to say 'through genetic accident or design' to avoid the improbability of a child falling down on the sidewalk and pointening his ears.\"",
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        "To make pointy or pointed"
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          "pointy"
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          "pointed",
          "pointed"
        ]
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        "(rare, transitive) To make pointy or pointed"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pointen"
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  "etymology_text": "From point + -en.",
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        "participle",
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      "form": "pointened",
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        "past"
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Sporting Magazine, volume 18, page 419:",
          "text": "Rumour was right on the other tack too; the line was a stiff one—not a mere plastered and pointened make-up, but a regular home-made rough one, with some very curious doubles—a lane that was neither good to get into or out of — and a brook about a mile from home, with very much the same kind of recommendation.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, MededeelIngen van den Dienst der Volksgezondheid in Nederlandsch-Indië:",
          "text": "Only exceptionally the teeth are pointened as is very common with the Papuas of New-Guinea.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Damon Knight, Orbit, page 249:",
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        "To make pointy or pointed"
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        "(rare, transitive) To make pointy or pointed"
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  "word": "pointen"
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