Synonyms of turned up

turned up

verb

past tense of turn up

1

as in appeared

to come into view

my missing car keys turned up just in time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appeared
• unfolded
• showed
• came out
• came
• showed up
• arrived
• loomed
• rose
• reappeared
• happened
• materialized
• emerged
• broke out
• shot (up)
• cropped (up)
• erupted
• sprang (up)
• bobbed (up)
• occurred
• surfaced
• resurfaced
• arose
• issued
• outcropped
• dawned
• blossomed
• debuted
• bulked
• broke
• rematerialized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• went (away)
• melted (away)
• disappeared
• dissolved
• faded
• vanished
• evaporated
• cleared
• left
• evanesced
• retired
• departed
• withdrew

2

as in arrived

to get to a destination

when do you think our guests will turn up?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arrived
• came
• appeared
• got in
• showed up
• got through
• landed
• pulled in
• burst (in or into)
• reached
• hit
• fetched
• touched down
• checked in
• disembarked
• made
• blew in
• waltzed (in)
• breezed (in)
• barged (in)
• clocked (in)
• debarked

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• left
• went
• checked out
• clocked (out)
• fled
• vamoosed

3

as in found

to come upon after searching, study, or effort

it took days to turn up the original documents

Synonyms & Similar Words

• found
• learned
• located
• discovered
• found out
• got
• dug up
• ran down
• dug out
• rooted (out)
• hit (on or upon)
• dredged (up)
• routed (out)
• hunted (down or up)
• tracked (down)
• detected
• determined
• ascertained
• scouted (up)
• nosed out
• ferreted (out)
• rummaged
• scared up
• descried
• looked for
• spotted
• searched (for or out)
• sighted
• sought
• espied

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• passed over
• missed
• overlooked
• lost
• misplaced
• mislaid
• misset

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of turned up

High-end apparel maker Ralph Lauren also turned up on the screen as a stock that’s seen upwardly revised earnings estimates. —Davis Giangiulio,christopher Hayes, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026

Search warrants executed at those locations turned up images that depicted the abuse of infants and toddlers. —Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 30 Jan. 2026

Much like his first term, his clemency power this year has been a reflection of his politics, but turned up to new levels. —Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026

High school students have walked out of class, and elders have turned up to protests in the frigid cold. —David Ostendorf, Time, 29 Jan. 2026

Clients and friends of the house turned up en masse to the 5,000-square-foot space, with glamorous French actresses Isabelle Huppert and Adèle Exarchopoulos—dressed in a men’s jacket from the Lanvin Fall Winter collection by Peter Copping—among them. —Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2026

Numerous subsequent attempts to call or email Weber turned up empty, the prosecutor claimed. —Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026

Many enterprises have turned up their focus on credentials quite a lot in recent years, and these attacks show now is no time to back down. —Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026

Police have accused a woman of distributing narcotics from a home in East Haven following a multi-agency investigation that culminated in a raid that allegedly turned up fentanyl, crack cocaine and other drugs. —Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026