turn up

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verb

1. appear or become visible;
make a showing (Freq. 8)
- She turned up at the funeral
- I hope the list key is going to surface again
• Syn:
come on, come out, surface, show up
• Derivationally related forms:
surface (for: surface)
• Hypernyms:
appear
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
2. bend or lay so that one part covers the other (Freq. 3)
- fold up the newspaper
- turn up your collar
• Syn:
fold, fold up
• Ant:
unfold (for: fold)
• Derivationally related forms:
turnup, fold (for: fold), folder (for: fold), folding (for: fold)
• Hypernyms:
change surface
• Hyponyms:
pleat, plicate, furrow, wrinkle, crease,
ruckle, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp, corrugate,
ruffle, tuck, crimp, pinch, cross, collapse
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. discover the location of;
determine the place of;
find by searching or examining (Freq. 2)
- Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?
- My search turned up nothing
• Syn:
locate
• Derivationally related forms:
location (for: locate)
• Hypernyms:
find, regain
• Hyponyms:
unearth, pinpoint, nail
• Verb Group:
excavate, dig up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- Somebody ----s something PP
4. find by digging in the ground
- I dug up an old box in the garden
• Syn:
excavate, dig up
• Derivationally related forms:
excavation (for: excavate)
• Hypernyms:
obtain
• Hyponyms:
grub up, grub out, nuzzle, disinter, exhume
• Verb Group:
locate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
5. 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
• Syn:
prove, turn out
• Hypernyms:
be
• Hyponyms:
result, ensue
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s Adjective/Noun
- Somebody ----s Adjective
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- It ----s that CLAUSE