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Show up

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. intransitive

    "Please come on time; don't just show up whenever you feel like it."

  2. 2
    appear or become visible; make a showing wordnet
  3. 3
    To be easily visible; to be conspicuous. intransitive

    "Stains really show up on this white tablecloth."

  4. 4
    be or become visible or noticeable wordnet
  5. 5
    To make visible; to expose. transitive

    "This bright light shows up the dust in the corners of the room."

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  1. 6
    To make visible or expose faults and deficiencies in, usually by outdoing, outperforming, or outcompeting another. idiomatic, transitive

    "I finished in five minutes and she showed me up by finishing in three."

  2. 7
    To produce an impression on observers; to come off. dated, intransitive

    "A pleasing countenance showing above a suit of clothes is attractive and makes the suit show up well, while a face with a blank expression is likely to make a man say to himself, "Well if that man's clothes is going to make me look like that I don't want any of them.""

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