POINT UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does point up mean? 

• POINT UP (verb)
  The verb POINT UP has 1 sense:

1. emphasize, especially by identification

  Familiarity information: POINT UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POINT UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emphasize, especially by identification

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

This novel points up the racial problems in England

Hypernyms (to "point up" is one way to...):

accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress (to stress, single out as important)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

“Perhaps we can clear the point up before we separate,” said Holmes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)