turn up
Verb
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Appear or become visible;
Make a showing (synset 200424655)"She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"is a type of: appear - come into sight or view -
Bend or lay so that one part covers the other (synset 201280538)
"fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"is a type of: change surface - undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surfacesubtypes:
- pleat, plicate - fold into pleats
- 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; `crisp' is archaic
- 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
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Discover the location of;
Determine the place of;
Find by searching or examining (synset 202291049)"Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing"is a type of: find, regain - come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lostsame as: locate -
Be shown or be found to be (synset 202639962)
"She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
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Find by digging in the ground (synset 201316583)
"I dug up an old box in the garden"is a type of: obtain - come into possession ofsubtypes:
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