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pointing up

pointing up is the present participle and gerund of point up.

Meaning of point up

Verb

point up (third-person singular simple present points up, present participle pointing up, simple past and past participle pointed up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To emphasise or stress; to draw attention to.
    • Although Alive and Well claims to be a "well-informed, loving guide to lesbian health, both mental and physical," it falls dismally short of the mark and only serves to point up how much lesbians truly need such a volume.1989 April 22, Shelley Mains, “A New Lesbian Health Guide That Lowers Your Spirits And Raises Your Blood Pressure”, in Gay Community News, page 8

Questions about pointing up

What is pointing up the present participle and gerund of?
Pointing up is the present participle and gerund of point up.

Words near pointing up in the dictionary

  1. pointing Percy at the porcelain
  2. pointing stick
  3. pointing sticks
  4. pointing the bone
  5. pointing the finger at
  6. pointing up
  7. pointing-stock
  8. pointing-stocks
  9. pointing-trowel
  10. pointing-trowels
  11. pointingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pointing up (page history and authors); point up (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.

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