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Turn Up

Definition: Turn Up

Turn Up

Verb

1. Appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again".

2. Bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar".

3. 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".

4. Be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turend up HIV positive".

5. Find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Turn Up

Synonyms: come on (v), come out (v), dig up (v), excavate (v), fold (v), fold up (v), locate (v), prove (v), show up (v), surface (v), turn out (v). (additional references)
Antonym: unfold (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Turn Up

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Chance 2

Verb: chance, hap, turn up; fall to one's lot; be one's -fate; stumble on light upon; take one's chance.

Adverb: by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance; (possibly); for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen; as the case may be.

Contempt

Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful).

Death

Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed).

Disapprobation

Frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose; (contempt); look askance, look black upon; look with an evil eye; make a wry face, make a wry mouth at; set one's face against.

Dislike

Shun, avoid; eschew; withdraw from, shrink from, recoil from; not be able to bear, not be able to abide, not be able to endure; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn up the nose at, look askance at; make a mouth, make a wry face, make a grimace; make faces.

Eventuality

Verb: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off; (be past).

Phrase: that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring; the plot thickens; "breasts the blows of circumstance"; "so runs round of life from hour to hour" "sprinkled along the waste of years".

Fastidiousness

Mince the matter; turn up one's nose at; (disdain); look a gift horse in the mouth, see spots on the sun.

Impiety

Snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize.

Inexpectation

Be unexpected; Adjective: come unawares; adVerb: turn up, pop, drop from the clouds; come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon one, steal upon one, creep upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a thunderclap, thunder bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch unawares, catch napping; yach.

Success

Answer, answer the purpose; avail, prevail, take effect, do, turn out well, work well, take, tell, bear fruit; hit it, hit the mark, hit the right nail on the head; nick it; turn up trumps, make a hit; find one's account in.

Vanity

Render vain; Adjective: inspire with vanity; Noun: inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head.

Wonder

Verb: wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised; Adjective: start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank; (disappointment); tombe des nues; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Turn Up

English words defined with "turn up": cold, cut intodelve, digHighmenTo rout out, To turn up, turn over. (references)
Specialty definitions using "turn up": Bump ThatChapter of Accidents, Cock the Nose, Cock up your HeadDarkest Hour is that before the Dawn, Doctorsjogger operatorLAYBOY TENDERmultiplicity of testingpotting upsheeter helpertroughing idlerWitham. (references)
Etymologies containing "turn up": Sleeve. (references)

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Modern Usage: Turn Up

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I expect she'll turn up sooner or later (Frenzy; writing credit: Arthur La Bern; Anthony Shaffer)

I'm like a bad penny, I always turn up. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)

If we turn up at that address, it could only mean that we've been tipped off, and that the whole Martin story is a plant (The Man Who Never Was; writing credit: Nigel Balchin; Ewen Montagu)

They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past (Field of Dreams; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson)

Why don't you turn up the heat (Weekend at Bernie's; writing credit: Robert Klane)

Lyrics

I turn up the radio to drown it out (But For The Grace Of God; performing artist: Keith Urban)

As I, Turn Up The Collar On My (Man In The Mirror; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard)

Turn up my symphony (Perfect Gentleman; performing artist: Wyclef Jean)

Clever

Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all! (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Turn Up

DomainTitle

Books

  • Security Trends for 2001 : Extranets Turn Up the Heat [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Turn Up the Contrast: Cbc Television Drama Since 1952 (reference)

  • Turn Up the Volume!: A Celebration of African Music (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Turn Up

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Sounds Captioned with "Turn Up".

PlayCaption
Scary movie; surprise; descry; detect; encounter; expose; hit upon; meet with; spot; surprise; take unawares; turn up; unmask.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Turn Up

AuthorQuotation

Garfield

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

O. Henry

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Turn Up

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I think that I may warrant you one worm to every three sods you turn up, if you look well in among the roots of the grass, as if you were weeding

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Turn Up

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Aluminum does turn up in higher amounts than normal in some autopsy studies of Alzheimer's patients, but not in all. Further doubt about the importance of aluminum stems from the possibility that the aluminum found in some studies did not all come from the brain tissues being studied. (references)

Economic History

Portugal

Scratch the surface of almost any major project in Portugal and you turn up the presence of EU funds. (references)

Worker Rights

Canada

The RCMP does charge traffickers for violating a variety of other statutes when its investigations turn up instances of trafficking. (references)

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Turn Up

Expressions using "turn up": bad pennies always turn up To turn up turn up one's eyes turn up one's nose turn up one's nose at turn up one's sleeves turn up one's toe turn up one's toes turn up out of the blue turn up side down turn up smb.'s nose turn up the heat turn up the pressure turn up the whites of the eyes turn up trumps. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Turn Up

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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106

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24

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8

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5

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4

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3

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3
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Modern Translation: Turn Up

Language Translations for "turn up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

surprizë, palë (cuff, fly, gathers, hem, lap, lappet, pair, pendant, reef, roll), përvesh (tuck up), mbërrij (appear, arrive, come, draw in, get, show up), gjendem (be, be discovered, be found, be present, be situated, find oneself, grow, stand), e kthyer (swig), dal (appear, arise, beetle, brush off, come into being, come out, come up, creep out, develop, egress, emerge, erupt, exhaust, exit, flow out, get out, get out of, go out, leave, let out, open, run out, sprout, stand out, stick up, turn out). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قلب (alter, bring down, capricious, capsize, center, centre, change, convert, core, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, middle, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, topple, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, upset, upturn, whimsical), ‏حضر (assist, attend, bring, call in, civilize, come, elaborate, fetch, make, prepare, present, report, send around), ‏جاء (arrive, bring, came, come), ‏ثنية ساق البنطلون (cuff), ‏ثني (bend, flection, flex, flexion, pleat, pleating), ‏رفع الصوت, ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), ‏ظهر (appear, arise, back, brighten up, bring out, come to light, declare, declassify, define, denote, develop, evidence, exercise, exhibit, express, feature, image, indicate, infer, loom, manifest, mark, note, occur, outcrop, parade, peep, play up, poke, pop up, proclaim, produce, reveal, show, show up, spring, surface, walk), ‏شىء مثني. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

карам да повръща, обръщам нагоре (upturn), намирам (be found, detect, discover, find, fit in, found, get, hit, hunt out, judge, land, locate, look up, raise, regard, root out, root up, run down, rustle up, scare up, secure, see, strike, track down), запретвам ръкави, предизвиквам отвращение (be abhorred), появявам се внезапно (break forth, burst, start), повдигам нагоре, попадам на (encounter, fall on, fall upon, find, happen on, pick up, run across, strike on), изривам (excavate, shovel out, unearth), изкопавам (dig, disinter, excavate, grub, mine, quarry, sink, unearth), изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, deduct, draw, draw out, drive out, eject, excerpt, extract, fetch, fish out, gouge, knock out, lay out, move out, oust, pick, pick up, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, take out, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out), изниквам (emerge, pop up, spring, sprout). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

傲視 (regard superciliously, show disdain for, turn up one's nose). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zvýšit (accelerate, ameliorate, bring up, build up, bump up, elevate, enhance, heighten, hot up, improve, intensify, put up, scale up, swell), zesílit (become stronger, enforce, fill out, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, intensify, magnify, reinforce, strengthen), vyorat, vyhrnout, převrátit (bend over, invert, overthrow, overturn, pervert, turn over, Upend, upset), obrátit vzhùru, nastat (arrive, close in, come in, set in, supervene). (various references)

   

Danish

  

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

   

Dutch

  

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

   

Finnish

  

tulla saapuville (appear, present oneself, put in an appearance, show up), ilmaantua (appear, arise, emerge, make one's appearance). (various references)

   

French

  

revers, remonter (tuck), relever, révéler, paraître, monter le volume, mettre plus fort, faire remonter, arriver. (various references)

   

German

  

heller machen, aufdrehen (get going, let it all hang out, loosen, open up, play up, switch on, turn on, unscrew, untwist, wind up), aufkrempeln (roll up), aufrollen (coil, coil up, furl, go into, reel off, roll, roll up, to furl, uncoil, unfurl, unroll, unwind, wind up), aufschlagen (blaze up, crack, crack open, crash, cut open, erection, go up, hit, lift, lift up, open, pitch, raise, serve, set up, slam, turn back), auftauchen (appear, appearance, arise, bob up, break, come up, crop out, emerge, emersion, figure, materialize, pop up, show up, surface, to appear, to emerge, to turn up), einschlagen (adopt, bang in, bash down, bash in, beat in, catch on, cover, drive home, drive in, drive into, enter on, envelop, fell, follow, hammer down, hammer in, hit, hit out, knock in, knock out, pursue, sink in, smash down, smash in, stave in, strike, take, take up, to stave in, turn, wrap up), entdecken (descry, detect, discern, discover, invent, light on, light upon, recover, spot, to descry, to detect, to discover, to spot, uncover, undeck), aufbinden (make smb. fall for, tie on, tie up straight, to turn up, undo, unlace, untie), höher drehen, zum vorsicht kommen, hochklappen (put up, tip up), hochschlagen (leap up, loft, put up, surge up), hosenaufschlag (cuff), sich anfinden, sich finden (be found, find each other, sort itself out), stülpen nach oben, umschlag (compress, cover, cuff, envelope, jacket, poultice, sudden change, traffic, transfer, transshipment, volume of traffic, wrapper, wrapping), wieder auftauchen (recur, resurface), erscheinen (apparition, appear, appearance, arrival, come out, emerge, manifest, materialize, occurence, perform, publication, seem, to appear, to turn up, tu turn up, turn out). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εμφανίζομαι (appear, come into view, come up, make one's appearance, set in, show up). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"ופיע (appear, arrive, come out, seem, shine, show, show up). (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, to turn up, turn out), hajtóka (cuff, facings, flap, handcar, lapel, lappet, turn-up), feltûnik (appear, emerge, perform, show up), felhajtás (ado, ballyho, do, hoo-ha, hoopla, hype, roundup, round-up, turn-up, upturn), felhajt (head back, mop up, put up, roll up, round up, seek, send up, to beat up, to cock, to flush, to hem, to kite, to mop up, to quaff, to quaff off, to ride up, to riffle, to round up, to roust out, to rout out, to turn up, tuck up, turn back), felbukkan (emerge, outcrop, to bob up, to crop up, to emerge, to occur, to outcrop). (various references)

   

Italian

  

saltar fuori, presentarsi (appear, arise, report, spring up), capitare (arrive, befall, come, happen, occur, occurances, recource), alzare (erect, get up, heave, Jack, lever, lift, lift up, pick up, put up, raise, rear, stand up, to raise, up, uplift). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

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

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

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

   

Manx

  

filley er ash (double back, double over, retrace, roll up, throwback, throwback of breed, turn over, turn over as sleeve), filley (braid, collapse, corrugate, crease, crinkle, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, lap, plait, ply, roll up, wrap), chyndaa seose. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urntay upay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

virar para cima (upturn), mostrar (bare, create, demonstrate, denote, designate, develop, discover, display, draw, drew, evince, exert, exhibit, hold up, indicate, intimate, keep up, offer, point out, produce, record, reflect, reveal, set forth, show, show off, show up, signify, to show, unfold, unmask, wear), expor (account, carry forth, converse, create, demonstrate, disclose, enunciate, exhibit, explicate, expose, expound, feature, imperil, lay open, produce, propone, propound, put, report, represent, set up, show, speak, spread, spread out, state, subject), deixar ver (show), comparecer (appear, attend, make an appearance), chegar (achieve, arrive, climax, come, get, get around, get in, land, measure up to, set in, suffice, to arrive), arrebitar (perk), aparecer (appear, be published, come on, come to light, emerge, hang out, perform, rise, show, show up, to appear). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ridica în sus. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

усиливать (amplify, deepen, escalate, exasperate, give an edge, increase, intensify, redouble, reenforce, reinforce, strengthen), завернуться (wrap oneself up), появляться (appear, come out, dawn, emerge, make an appearance, manifest, show up, spring), появиться внезапно, поднимать вверх, поднимать (boost, draw up, elevate, fly, lift, pick up, raise, rear, take up, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, weigh up). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pojaviti se (appear, crop up, shape, show up, start up, turn out), pojačati (amplify, boost, heighten, intensify, redouble, reinforce, soup), otkriti (bare, descry, detect, disclose, discover, divulge, dog down, expose, expose smb., let out, reveal, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unfold), okrenuti naviše, iskrsnuti (appear, come up, crop up, emerge, start up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tropezar con (encounter, experience, fall over, happen on, hit, hit on, meet with), hacer salir a la superficie, acortar (abbreviate, abridge, clip, curtail, cut back, cut short, shorten), acudir (come to the rescue, come up, keep, look to, vote), aparecer (appear, arrive, come into view, come on, come on the scene, come out, come up, develop, emerge, emersion, intervene, loom, loom up, peep out, peer, perform, roll up, show, show up, to appear, walk), apuntar (aim, appear, break, enter, get at, get down, jot down, lay, leak, level, log, make a note, Mark, mark down, mark up, note, point, prompt, put down, record, register, remark, score, set down, sight, train, write down), asumir la cara, buscar (ferret, fetch, forage for, get, go after, home in on, Hunt, hunt for, hunt out, hunt up, investigate, lay hold of, look, look for, look out, look out for, look round, look up, pick, pick up, prospect for, pursue, quest, scout for, scrounge around for, search, search after, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, take, to look for), consultar (advise with, consult, read, see, take advice), desenterrar (dig up, disinter, grub up, unearth), abrir (beat, beat out, blast, break, cut open, dehisce, discover, draw, drive, expose, open, open up, opening, pick, plough, plow, put up, set up, sharpen, shell, start, tread, tread down, turn on, unbar, unburden, uncurl, undo, unfold, zip, zip open, zip up), hacer más corto, volver a aparecer (reappear), llegar (arrive, blow in, break through, bring up, catch, come, come across, come in, come of, come over, come round, come through, dock, draw in, end up, get, get around, get in, immigrate, infiltrate, invade, jockey, land, last out, pass, pull in, reach, ride up, roll along, roll in, roll up, spend, throw out, to arrive, top off, touch down, travel, vaporize), poner más fuerte, presentarse (check in, come along, come forward, go in for, introduce oneself, present oneself, put across, put in, put over, race, report, roll in, sit, tackle, take), revolver (churn, circulate, mix, stir, toss, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over), salir (absent onself, break, break out, come off, come out, come up, depart, departing, drive away, drive off, emancipate, emerge, exit, get away, get out, get over, go, go away, go off, go on, go out, issue, lead off, leak, leave, leaving, line out, lurch out, march out, pan out, pass out, Pierce, pop out, protrude, pull out, push through, put off, put out, radiate, rise, sail, sail out, set forth, set forward, set out, shoot out, shoot up, stand out, start off, step out, stick out, take away, take off, take out, throw off, to leave, troop, trot along, trot over, trot round, walk out, wash off), surgir (appear, arise, bob up, break forth, come up, crop up, emerge, intervene, loom, loom up, originate, pop up, surge), venir (break through, come, come across, come of, come round, come through, infiltrate, land, settle), doblar (bend, double, double for, dub, flex, fold, give in, make, Mark, round, subdue, turn, wear out, yield). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vika upp, vända upp, uppslag (idea, impulse, tuck), slå upp (break off, broach, look up, open, pitch, splash, tap), skruva upp (key up), skräll (bang, Bray, clap, clash, crash, peal, sensation, upset), falla upp (open), dyka upp (crop up, emerge, loom, materialize, present oneself, rise), överraskning (surprise). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yukarı tutmak, vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, diverge from, lapse, lead away from, oblique, sheer, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, slant, stray, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn off, wander, wander off), sıvamak (daub, draw up, parget, plaster, puddle, roll up, tuck up), ortaya çıkmak (appear, approve oneself, arise, burst, come along, come forward, come in sight, come in view, come into the open, come out, crop out, crop up, debouch, emerge, fall out, occur, offer, outcrop, shape, show up, spawn, spring, surface), kusturmak (gag, make sick, puke, regurgitate, spew, spue), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, upheave, uphold, upraise), düzünü çevirmek, dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), bulunmak (be, be found, be located, be present, be situated, exist, find oneself, have, present, present oneself, reside, stand), bulmak (ascertain, clear up, cogitate, contrive, devise, discover, find, go for, happen on, happen upon, hit, invent, meet, obtain, procure, provide with, reach, reason, strike, strike out, study out), bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, view, wait on, wait upon, watch), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), çıkagelmek (blow in, erupt, happen along, happen in, pop in, pop up, roll up, show up). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

зyzgmak (tuck up), зermemek (tuck up). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

траплятися (be, bechance, befall, betide, chance, come about, hap, occur, occur with, offer, take place, tide, worth), загинатися (crease), загинати (lap), підшивати (shoe). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Turn Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: turnup, upturn.

Words within the letters "n-p-r-t-u-u"

-2 letters: punt, runt, turn.

-3 letters: nut, pun, pur, put, run, rut, tun, tup, urn.

-4 letters: nu, un, up, ut.

 Words containing the letters "n-p-r-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: turnups, upturns.

 

+2 letters: puncture, pursuant, purulent, upturned.

 

+3 letters: punctured, punctures, rupturing, uncorrupt, upcountry, upturning.

 

+4 letters: outpouring, puberulent, punctuator, puncturing, pursuivant, usurpation.

 

+5 letters: acupuncture, countercoup, outpourings, outtrumping, pulverulent, punctuators, pursuivants, sculpturing, supernature, suppurating, suppuration, unperturbed, unspiritual, unsupported, upthrusting, usurpations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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