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Turn Up| Verb | 1. | turn up - appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"appear - come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" | | | 2. | turn up - bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"corrugate - fold into ridges; "corrugate iron" pleat, ruffle - pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric" tuck - make a tuck or several folds in; "tuck the fabric"; "tuck in the sheet" crimp, pinch - make ridges into by pinching together cross - fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs" collapse - fold or close up; "fold up your umbrella"; "collapse the music stand" | | | 3. | turn up - discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing"regain, find - come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" unearth - bring to light; "The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President" pinpoint, nail - locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome" | | | 4. | turn up - be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" ensue, result - issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end; "result in tragedy" | | | 5. | turn up - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"nuzzle - dig out with the snout; "the pig nuzzled the truffle" obtain - come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" locate, turn up - discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" disinter, exhume - dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | |
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