point sth up
formal— phrasal verb with point uk/pɔɪnt/us/pɔɪnt/verb
to emphasize a problem or fact, so that people notice it more:
It was a badly researched documentary that glossed over important questions while pointing up trivial ones.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stressing & emphasizing
- accent
- accentuate
- drive
- emphasis
- emphatic
- freaking
- fronting
- gloss
- hammer
- hammer sth home idiom
- howling
- impress sth on/upon sb
- insistence
- place
- play
- play sth up
- point
- point sth out
- should
- underline
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