Synonyms for turn up
turn up

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1. turn upverb

   To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.

   Turn up the radio and sing along.

   Antonyms:
   turn down

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1. come on, come out, turn up, surface, show upverb

   appear or become visible; make a showing

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

   Synonyms:
   start, rise, bulge out, place, step up, come along, get along, protrude, fall out, break through, progress, out, go forth, come on, come out of the closet, bulge, go up, advance, surface, come in, step forward, step to the fore, show, dig up, fold up, come up, pop out, egress, draw close, draw near, bug out, go on, prove, coat, come to the fore, get on, push through, approach, erupt, fold, excavate, turn out, emerge, shape up, show up, pop, issue, appear, come near, come forward, come out, rise up, come forth, near, locate

2. fold, fold up, turn upverb

   bend or lay so that one part covers the other

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

   Synonyms:
   come out, pen up, shut down, come on, surface, close up, show up, prove, close, close down, locate, fold, excavate, fold up, turn out, dig up

3. locate, turn upverb

   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:
   turn out, settle, prove, site, fold up, dig up, locate, fold, surface, excavate, situate, come out, come on, show up, place

4. prove, turn out, turn upverb

   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:
   rise, dig up, leaven, try, boot out, show, testify, establish, uprise, rotate, test, evidence, try out, come on, cut, surface, get up, examine, arise, turf out, spread out, turn off, exclude, essay, raise, switch off, chuck out, prove, shew, fold, excavate, turn out, demonstrate, splay, show up, locate, eject, come out, fold up, bear witness, bear

5. excavate, dig up, turn upverb

   find by digging in the ground

   "I dug up an old box in the garden"

   Synonyms:
   dig, hollow, turn out, fold up, dig up, locate, fold, surface, excavate, come out, come on, show up, dig out, unearth, prove

Matched Categories

1. • Appear
   • Be
   • Find
   • Obtain

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1. turn up

   Synonyms:
   bend upwards

2. turn up

   Synonyms:
   occur, happen, come to pass

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1. Kevin McCall:

   We just finished performing as we call civil disobedience for justice. Sometimes you need to do things that turn up the temperature for justice, you have to do extreme things … to get justice.

2. Darren Cahill:

   I know I'm privileged because I work with a great player, and Simona has always looked after me and still does, so I'm one of the lucky ones but I know that I'm one of the few. In the main draw of men's or women's tournaments there are 128 players (and) there might be 100 coaches that turn up in those tournaments.

3. Matt Harris:

   We'd turn up...and you'd basically be 10 teams down the pitlane arguing over who got the ISDN lines because there weren't enough supplied into the track, you dialed it up and if you didn't keep it dialed up for the weekend, basically you lost it when somebody else used it.

4. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.

5. Man President Luke Ellis:

   The basic dynamics of the market are with us for a while. It's not cool to go to a cocktail and say the answer is 'own bonds and lots of bonds, and be long the dollar and continue to own the Nikkei and be short the yen, Everybody likes to turn up to a cocktail party and call turning points, but I don't think we're seeing one ... We may have a change in printing press, but it's the same environment, and the great thing about computers is they don't go to cocktail parties.