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  • verb intransitive To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
  • verb transitive, idiomatic To outperform or one-up, often in an arrogant manner.
  • verb transitive To make visible; to expose.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb appear or become visible; make a showing
  • verb be or become visible or noticeable

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synonyms (184)

Words with the same meaning

  1. accomplish
  2. achieve
  3. appear
  4. approach
  5. arise
  6. arrive
  7. arrive at
  8. arrive in
  9. assister
  10. attain
  11. attain to
  12. attend
  13. awaken
  14. bare
  15. be at
  16. be evident
  17. be found
  18. be noticeable
  19. be present at
  20. be received
  21. be revealed
  22. be seen
  23. be visible
  24. become manifest
  25. become visible
  26. belie
  27. betray itself
  28. blow in
  29. blow sky-high
  30. blow up
  31. bob up
  32. break the seal
  33. break the spell
  34. bring to light
  35. burst the bubble
  36. catch
  37. chance
  38. check in
  39. clock in
  40. come
  41. come along
  42. come forth
  43. come forward
  44. come in
  45. come in sight
  46. come into being
  47. come into existence
  48. come on
  49. come out
  50. come to
  51. come to hand
  52. come to light
  53. correct
  54. crop out
  55. crop up
  56. debunk
  57. deflate
  58. develop
  59. disabuse
  60. disappoint
  61. disclose
  62. disconfirm
  63. discover
  64. discover itself
  65. discredit
  66. disenchant
  67. disillude
  68. disillusion
  69. disillusionize
  70. dismask
  71. disprove
  72. do
  73. draw on
  74. draw the veil
  75. eclipse
  76. emerge
  77. enlighten
  78. enter
  79. explode
  80. expose
  81. extinguish
  82. fade in
  83. fake out
  84. fetch
  85. fetch up at
  86. find
  87. gain
  88. get
  89. get in
  90. get there
  91. get to
  92. glare
  93. go to
  94. hang out
  95. heave in sight
  96. hit
  97. hit town
  98. impart
  99. invalidate
  100. issue
  101. issue forth
  102. lay bare
  103. lay open
  104. let daylight in
  105. let down easy
  106. let in on
  107. let out
  108. look forth
  109. look on
  110. loom
  111. loom large
  112. make
  113. make it
  114. manifest
  115. materialize
  116. meet the gaze
  117. negate
  118. negative
  119. open
  120. open up
  121. outcrop
  122. overshadow
  123. peep out
  124. pop up
  125. present itself
  126. prick the bubble
  127. prove the contrary
  128. pull in
  129. punch in
  130. puncture
  131. put down
  132. put straight
  133. put to shame
  134. raise the curtain
  135. reach
  136. rear its head
  137. reveal
  138. ring in
  139. rise
  140. roll in
  141. see
  142. see the light
  143. set right
  144. set straight
  145. shine out
  146. shine through
  147. show
  148. show through
  149. sign in
  150. sit in
  151. spring up
  152. stand forth
  153. stand out
  154. stream forth
  155. strike the eye
  156. strip bare
  157. take in
  158. tell the truth
  159. time in
  160. turn up
  161. unblindfold
  162. uncharm
  163. uncloak
  164. uncover
  165. undeceive
  166. undercut
  167. undrape
  168. undress
  169. unfold
  170. unfurl
  171. unkennel
  172. unmask
  173. unpack
  174. unroll
  175. unscreen
  176. unsheathe
  177. unshroud
  178. unspell
  179. unveil
  180. unwrap
  181. visit
  182. wake up
  183. watch
  184. witness

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. appear

relateds (1)

relateds

  1. show off

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  • dinkum commented on the word show up

    WORD: show up
        
    DEFINITION: to appear.
        
    EXAMPLE: ' "You look like a married man," she said, looking him over: "What do I tell your wife when she shows up?"

         
    ' "I doubt she'll show up, but if she does she can probably find me by smell," Duane said. "You don't have to get involved."
         
    ' "She'll show up, I expect," Marcie said. "Wives usually show up." '
       
    --- 1999. Larry McMurtry. Duane's Depressed. "Book Two -- The Walker and His Doctor," Chapter 6, Page 250. Pocket Book edition, ISBN 0-671-02557-0.

    January 22, 2014