Word.ws English Dictionary

pointed one's toes

pointed one's toes is the simple past and past participle of point one's toes.

Meaning of point one's toes

Verb

point one's toes (third-person singular simple present points one's toes, present participle pointing one's toes, simple past and past participle pointed one's toes)

  1. To flex the ankle as far as possible while simultaneously extending the toes in the same direction.
    • Point your toes away from you (downward) as far as you can.2000, Delores Christina Schoen, Adult Orthopaedic Nursing, →ISBN, page 35
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see point, toe.
    • “You're trying to hypnotize me. I'm not going to let you do that.” “You're going to hypnotize yourself. You do everything yourself. I just point the way. I point your toes to the path. Just point your toes. No one can make you go anywhere you don't want to go, but you want to go where your toes are...1999, Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams, Baby is Three, →ISBN, page 384

Questions about pointed one's toes

What is pointed one's toes the simple past and past participle of?
Pointed one's toes is the simple past and past participle of point one's toes.

Words near pointed one's toes in the dictionary

  1. pointed
  2. pointed and called
  3. pointed cabbage
  4. pointed cabbages
  5. pointed fingers
  6. pointed one's toes
  7. pointed out
  8. pointed Percy at the porcelain
  9. pointed the bone
  10. pointed the finger at
  11. pointed up

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pointed one's toes (page history and authors); point one's toes (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pointed one's toes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pointed_one%27s_toes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.