TURN UP

• (verb) appear or become visible; make a showing

  "She turned up at the funeral", "I hope the list key is going to surface again"

  synonyms : come on , come out , show up , surface

• (verb) bend or lay so that one part covers the other

  "fold up the newspaper", "turn up your collar"

  synonyms : fold , fold up

• (verb) find by digging in the ground

  "I dug up an old box in the garden"

  synonyms : dig up , excavate

• (verb) 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"

  synonyms : locate

• (verb) 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"

  synonyms : prove , turn out

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