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point up
verb
- tr, adverb to emphasize, esp by identifying
he pointed up the difficulties we would encounter
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]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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