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Meaning of TURN UP

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 Definition: 
  1. [v]  appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
  2. [v]  bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"
  3. [v]  find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
  4. [v]  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"
  5. [v]  be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turend up HIV positive"
 
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 Synonyms: come on, come out, dig up, excavate, fold, fold up, locate, prove, show up, surface, turn out
 
 Antonyms: open, spread, spread out, unfold
 
 See Also: appear, be, change surface, collapse, corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crisp, cross, disinter, ensue, exhume, find, furrow, grub out, grub up, nail, nuzzle, obtain, pinch, pinpoint, pleat, plicate, regain, result, ruckle, ruffle, scrunch, scrunch up, tuck, unearth, wrinkle

 

 

 

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