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Turn up   /tərn əp/   Listen
Turn up

verb
1.
Appear or become visible; make a showing.  Synonyms: come on, come out, show up, surface.  "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
2.
Bend or lay so that one part covers the other.  Synonyms: fold, fold up.  "Turn up your collar"
3.
Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining.  Synonym: locate.  "My search turned up nothing"
4.
Be shown or be found to be.  Synonyms: prove, turn out.  "The medicine turned out to save her life" , "She turned up HIV positive"
5.
Find by digging in the ground.  Synonyms: dig up, excavate.



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"Turn up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tynan says," responded Jesse Bulrush cheerily. "You never know your luck. The cash is waiting for you somewhere, and it'll turn up, be sure of that." ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... Davos than I had ever learnt in my life. We read The Republic and all the Plato dialogues together; Swift, Voltaire, Browning, Walt Whitman, Edgar Poe and Symonds' own Renaissance, besides passages from every author and poet, which he would turn up feverishly to illustrate what he wanted me ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith

... Hermann's excitement suddenly went off the boil as when you remove a saucepan from the fire. I urged on his consideration that he had done now with Falk and Falk's confounded tug. He, Hermann, would not, perhaps, turn up again in this part of the world for years to come, since he was going to sell the Diana at the end of this very trip ("Go home passenger in a mail boat," he murmured mechanically). He was therefore safe from Falk's malice. All he had to do was to race off to his consignees and stop payment ...
— Falk • Joseph Conrad

... up!" said T. X. impatiently; "all the heroes of Lexman's books turn up sooner or later. He will discover himself to us at a suitable moment, and we ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace

... glass; it being a very fine day no one had any apprehension of a squall. The dinner was hardly over when the captain's eye caught the glass: he suddenly rose from table and hurrying on deck, ordered "All hands to turn up, and furl all sail immediately." They had just completed the order and were descending, when the ship was laid on her beam-ends, most of the men had a ducking, but that was all the mischief that happened. Three or ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, No. 476, Saturday, February 12, 1831 • Various


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