turn up missing

verb

To be discovered to have disappeared.

Opposite
turn up
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Meanings

verbturn up missing (third-person singular simple present turns up missing, present participle turning up missing, simple past and past participle turned up missing)

present singular third person turns up missing · participle present turning up missing · participle past turned up missing · past turned up missing

  1. To be discovered to have disappeared.

    He would have hidden the silver with the gold to wait there till his "revenge" was satisfied, and then he would have had the misfortune to find that money turn up missing.

    1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC

    Antonyms: turn up

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo be discovered to have disappeared.

Opposite
turn up
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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “turn up missing,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/turn%20up%20missing.

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