turn up
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(verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?" |
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Synonyms: locate |
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Related Words: find, pinpoint, regain, unearth |
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(verb) appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again" |
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Synonyms: come on, come out, show up, surface |
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Related Words: appear |
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(verb) bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper" |
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Synonyms: fold, fold up |
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Related Words: change surface, collapse, corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crisp, cross, furrow, pinch, pleat, ruckle, ruffle, scrunch, scrunch up, tuck, wrinkle |
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(verb) find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"; "The archaeologists digging up the battlefield turned up a lot of old helmets" |
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Synonyms: dig up, excavate |
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Related Words: disinter, exhume, grub out, grub up, nuzzle, obtain |
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