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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again" [syn: come on, come out, turn up, surface, show up]
2: bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" [syn: fold, fold up, turn up] [ant: open, spread, spread out, unfold]
3: 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" [syn: locate, turn up]
4: 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, turn up]
5: find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden" [syn: excavate, dig up, turn up]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 1563 transitive verb 1. find, discover 2. to raise or increase by or as if by turning a control <turn up the volume on the radio> 3. British a. to look up (as a word or fact) in a book b. to refer to or consult (a book) 4. to turn (a card) face upward intransitive verb 1. to appear or come to light unexpectedly or after being lost <new evidence has turned up> 2. a. (1) to turn out to be <he turned up missing at roll call> (2) appear 4 <her name is always turning up in the newspapers> b. to arrive or show up at an appointed or expected time or place <turned up half an hour late> 3. to happen or occur unexpectedly <something always turned up to prevent their meeting> 4. of a ship tack 1b

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that someone or something turns up, you mean that they arrive, often unexpectedly or after you have been waiting a long time. Richard had turned up on Christmas Eve with Tony... = show up PHRASAL VERB: V P 2. If you turn something up or if it turns up, you find, discover, or notice it. Investigations have never turned up any evidence. ...a very rare 15th-Century spoon, which turned up in an old house in Devon. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V P 3. When you turn up a radio, heater, or other piece of equipment, you increase the amount of sound, heat, or power being produced, by adjusting the controls. Bill would turn up the TV in the other room... I turned the volume up... Turn the heat up high. ? turn down PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P, V n P adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

1. Bend upward. 2. Occur, happen, come to pass. 3. Come to light, transpire.

Moby Thesaurus

abandon, accomplish, achieve, appear, appear unexpectedly, approach, arise, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, assister, attain, attain to, attend, be at, be found, be present at, be received, be unexpected, bechance, become manifest, become visible, befall, betide, betray itself, blow in, bob up, bring to light, catch, cede, chance, check in, clock in, cock up, come, come across, come along, come forth, come forward, come in, come in sight, come into being, come into existence, come on, come out, come to, come to hand, come to light, come unawares, come upon, creep up on, crop out, crop up, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover itself, disinter, do, draw on, emerge, encounter, enter, espy, excavate, exhume, expose, fade in, fall upon, ferret out, fetch, fetch up at, find, fish up, flash upon one, gain, get in, get there, get to, give up, go to, hand, hang out, hap, happen, happen along, happen by chance, hazard, heave in sight, hit, hit town, issue, issue forth, look forth, look on, loom, make, make it, materialize, meet with, outcrop, peep out, pop up, pounce upon, present itself, pull in, punch in, reach, rear its head, reveal, ring in, rise, roll in, root up, see, see the light, show, show up, sign in, sit in, slope up, spot, spring up, stream forth, strike the eye, take in, time in, track down, trend upwards, uncover, unearth, upbend, upcast, upcurve, upsweep, upturn, visit, watch, witness, worm out