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

The incident became even more troubling after reports that models had turned up on a dozen other websites. — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Mock skeletons are everywhere in the weeks leading up to Halloween, but a real one turned up as someone was mowing grass in eastern North Carolina, police say. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 4 Oct. 2026

He was arrested the next day, when a search of the same hotel room reportedly turned up about 60 grams of fentanyl, 25 grams of crack cocaine and seven grams of powder cocaine, federal officials said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

In my experience, an early discovery effort on a platform migration turned up business logic—validation rules, data transformations, exception handling—buried in integration code for years because nobody had a cleaner place to put it. — Sanchet Pachpute, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Because this Opus Jazz belongs to Miami, Posen also turned up the temperature on the palette. — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026

The down low on domoic acid In recent weeks, dozens of sea lions suffering from domoic acid poisoning have turned up on beaches from Monterey County to Sonoma County — and some fear this is only the beginning. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

One of the biggest names on YouTube has turned up at the home of one of Kansas City’s biggest names in hip-hop and neither has said exactly why. — Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026

One girl brought her new bike, received just the day before, another turned up with some rocks. — Zoe Whitfield, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026