TO TURN UP

Definition: TO TURN UP

TO TURN UP

1. (a) To turn so as to bring the bottom side on top; as, to turn up the trump. (b) To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing, digging, etc. (c) To give an upward curve to; to tilt; as, to turn up the nose.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO TURN UP

I'm afraid I have a tendency to turn up the heat (Needful Things; writing credit: W.D. Richter)

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Worker Rights

Netherlands

Although most women trafficked from Africa are not actually under the age of 18, all claim to be. Once at the asylum center, they remain for a few days and then disappear, only to turn up later as prostitutes in the country or elsewhere in Europe. (references)

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Danish

vende jorden (to turn), ploeje op (to turn), grave op (to turn). (various references)

Dutch

omzetten (move, transact money, transfer). (various references)

Finnish

kääntää maata (digging, to turn, turning up), kääntää (convert, fold, translate, turn, turn around, turn round). (various references)

French

retourner (to turn). (various references)

German

auftauchen (appear, appearance, arise, bob up, break, come up, crop out, emerge, emersion, figure, materialize, pop up, show up, surface, to appear, to emerge, turn up). (various references)

Greek 

αναστρέφω (to turn). (various references)

Hungarian

megjelenik (appear, be published, emerge, perform, to appear, to come up, to make an appearance, to make one's appearance, to put in an appearance, to roll up, to show up, turn out, turn up), kifordít (to turn inside out, to turn over, twist), feltűr (to roll up, to tuck up), felhajlik, felfordul (to capsize, to careen, to overturn, to pop out, to somersault, to somerset, to turn a complete somersault, to turn over, to turn turtle), felfelé fordít (to upturn, upturn), előkerül, adódik (happen, to come about, to happen, to offer, to offer itself, to present itself, to take place), émelyít (nauseate, to cloy, to cloy the appetite, to disgust, to nauseate, to sicken). (various references)

Italian

rivoltare (revolt, turn again, turn inside out, turn over, turn round, turn upside down), dissodare (to grub, to turn). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立ち回る (to conduct oneself, to walk about), 掘�"す (to dig up, to tear up), 掘り�"す (to dig up, to tear up), 折�"る (to refrain, to repeat, to tell again and again, to turn down), 折曲�'る (to bend, to double, to turn down), 折り�"す (to fold back), 折り曲�'る (to bend, to double, to turn down), 折れ�"る (to refrain, to repeat, to tell again and again, to turn down), 持上がる (to come up, to happen, to lift, to occur), 持ち上がる (to come up, to happen, to lift, to occur), 捲る (to roll up, to strip off, to tear off, to turn over, to turn pages of a book, verb suffix to indicate reckless abandon to the activity), 仰のける , 仰向ける , やって来る (at last, at length, to come along, to come around), � �り�"す (to dig up, to tear up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちまわる (to conduct oneself, to walk about), おりま�'る (to bend, to double, to turn down), おりかえす (to fold back), おれかえる (to refrain, to repeat, to tell again and again, to turn down), まくる (to roll up, verb suffix to indicate reckless abandon to the activity), ほりかえす (to dig up, to tear up), あおのける, あおむける, やってくる (to come along, to come around), もちあがる (to come up, to happen, to lift, to occur). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay urntay upay.(various references)

Spanish

roturar (break, leak, plough up, tear, tear up, throw over), cavar (delve, dig, dig up, grub, mole, pick, scoop out, spade). (various references)

Swedish

vända jorden (to turn). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: outturn, turnout.

-2 letters: output, outrun, prutot, putout, runout, turnup, uptorn, upturn.

-3 letters: punto, puton, putto, trout, tutor.

-4 letters: porn, port, pour, pout, punt, putt, roup, rout, runt, torn, tort, tour, tout, trop, trot, turn, tutu, unto, upon.

-5 letters: nor, not, nut, opt, ort, our, out, pot, pro, pun, pur, put, rot, run, rut, ton, top.

+2 letters: punctuator.

+3 letters: outtrumping, punctuators.

+5 letters: repunctuation, unpretentious.