Synonyms of turns up

turns up

verb

present tense third-person singular of turn up

1

as in appears

to come into view

my missing car keys turned up just in time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appears
• unfolds
• shows
• comes
• comes out
• arrives
• shows up
• rises
• looms
• reappears
• materializes
• happens
• breaks out
• emerges
• springs (up)
• surfaces
• shoots (up)
• erupts
• occurs
• crops (up)
• arises
• resurfaces
• debuts
• bulks
• dawns
• bobs (up)
• blossoms
• issues
• outcrops
• breaks
• rematerializes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• goes (away)
• melts (away)
• disappears
• dissolves
• fades
• vanishes
• evaporates
• clears
• leaves
• withdraws
• retires
• evanesces
• departs

2

as in arrives

to get to a destination

when do you think our guests will turn up?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arrives
• comes
• gets in
• appears
• gets through
• shows up
• lands
• pulls in
• touches down
• reaches
• bursts (in or into)
• hits
• blows in
• fetches
• waltzes (in)
• debarks
• makes
• clocks (in)
• breezes (in)
• disembarks
• barges (in)
• checks in

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• goes
• leaves
• checks out
• clocks (out)
• flees
• vamooses

3

as in finds

to come upon after searching, study, or effort

it took days to turn up the original documents

Synonyms & Similar Words

• finds
• learns
• discovers
• gets
• locates
• runs down
• finds out
• hits (on or upon)
• digs up
• digs out
• hunts (down or up)
• tracks (down)
• roots (out)
• determines
• detects
• dredges (up)
• ascertains
• rummages
• ferrets (out)
• noses out
• scouts (up)
• descries
• routs (out)
• scares up
• looks for
• sights
• spots
• searches (for or out)
• seeks
• espies

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• passes over
• misses
• overlooks
• loses
• misplaces
• missets
• mislays

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of turns up

Keep your head held high, as Cancer season turns up the volume around career, ambition and public visibility. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026

Whole-body screening of people with no symptoms turns up incidental findings in 20% to 40% of scans, yet only a small fraction ever require treatment, as University of Michigan radiologists have noted. — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

Queen of Hearts and The Girl with the Needle actress Trine Dyrholm co-stars a woman estranged from children who turns up uninvited at a weekend-long naming party for her son’s firstborn child at a luxury season resort. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 June 2026

In her follow-up, Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia attend a fancy party on an island estate; when the host turns up dead, Blanche becomes a suspect, leaving the women with no choice but to find the real killer. — Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 11 June 2026

But as the night wanes on, the music turns up. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026

And if nothing turns up, consider starting one yourself. — Angela Haupt, Time, 19 May 2026

Bum-seok seems done for until Sung-ae turns up with a cop car full of military-grade weapons to slow the thing down. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026

The latter activity gives them some solid ground to plant their hooves on when George abruptly turns up dead one morning, poisoned by an unknown suspect. — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 8 May 2026