turn up

1. (verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"
Synonyms: locate
Related Words: find, pinpoint, regain, unearth

2. (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
Related Words: appear

3. (verb) bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"
Synonyms: fold, fold up
Related Words: change surface, collapse, corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crisp, cross, furrow, pinch, pleat, ruckle, ruffle, scrunch, scrunch up, tuck, wrinkle

4. (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"
Synonyms: dig up, excavate
Related Words: disinter, exhume, grub out, grub up, nuzzle, obtain



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