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View synonyms for point up

point up

verb

  1. tr, adverb to emphasize, esp by identifying

    he pointed up the difficulties we would encounter

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Idioms and Phrases

Emphasize, draw attention to, as in Her comments point up the need for more security at the store . [First half of 1900s]
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Example Sentences

He seized the scrawny neck and pulled her to him, bringing the Bowie knife's point up against her throat.

A triangular shape swings point up half-way between the Deck and the signal-yard of the New York.

But she felt unwilling to give this point up, unless Jack absolutely put his foot down with regard to it.

And wife-desertion was no felony; he had looked that point up.

Beorn had cached a canoe at the mouth of the Forbidden River, and therefore would reach the Point up-stream from the northward.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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