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turn up

Dictionary definition · turn up

verb

  1. appear or become visible; make a showing"She turned up at the funeral"
  2. bend or lay so that one part covers the other"fold up the newspaper"
  3. discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining"Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"
  4. be shown or be found to be"She proved to be right"
  5. find by digging in the ground"I dug up an old box in the garden"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).