Turn Up - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms

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SKIP TO CONTENT turn up /tərn əp/ /tən əp/ IPA guide

Other forms: turned up; turning up; turns up

Definitions of turn up

verb bend or lay so that one part covers the other “turn up your collar” synonyms: fold, fold up see moresee less types: show 14 types... hide 14 types... pleat, plicate fold into pleats, "Pleat the cloth" crease, furrow, wrinkle make wrinkled or creased crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in corrugate fold into ridges pleat, ruffle pleat or gather into a ruffle tuck make a tuck or several folds in crimp, pinch make ridges into by pinching together cross fold so as to resemble a cross collapse fold or close up cockle, crumple, knit, pucker, rumple to gather something into small wrinkles or folds pucker, ruck, ruck up become wrinkled or drawn together deflate collapse by releasing contained air or gas flute form flutes in concertina collapse like a concertina type of: change surface undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface
verb be shown or be found to be synonyms: prove, turn out see moresee less types: show 5 types... hide 5 types... ensue, result issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end come happen as a result be due, flow from be the result of fall out, follow come as a logical consequence; follow logically come after, follow come after in time, as a result type of: be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
verb appear or become visible; make a showing “She turned up at the funeral” synonyms: come on, come out, show up, surface see moresee less type of: appear come into sight or view
verb discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining “My search turned up nothing” synonyms: locate dig up, excavate find by digging in the ground see moresee less types: unearth bring to light nail, pinpoint locate exactly type of: find, regain come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
verb find by digging in the ground synonyms: dig up, excavate locate discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining see moresee less types: grub out, grub up dig up nuzzle dig out with the snout disinter, exhume dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies type of: obtain come into possession of

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