phrasal verb · neutral

turn up

UK/tɜːn ʌp/US/tɜrn ʌp/TURN·up

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to appear or arrive unexpectedly; to increase volume; to be discovered

Examples

He didn't turn up for the interview.

Could you turn up the heater? It's freezing.

The missing file finally turned up in my bag.

Band 8 sentence

She turned up at the conference unexpectedly, which changed the whole discussion dynamic.

Collocations

  • turn up for an interview
  • turn up the volume/heater
  • turn up something

Word family

turn up phrasal verbturn-up noun (informal)

Common mistakes

turn up to the meetingturn up for the meeting

turn up the music offturn up the music

I turned up the bookI turned the book up / The book turned up

Say it for a higher band

5show up6appear7+turn up

Synonyms

appear

show up

Easily confused

show up

She showed up late to the meeting.

appear

A solution appeared after some discussion.

turn on

He turned on the lights.

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