show up
Verb
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Verb
show up (third-person singular simple present shows up, present participle showing up, simple past showed up, past participle shown up)
- (intransitive) To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
- Please come on time; don't just show up whenever you feel like it.
- No matter how many I throw away, more copies always show up.
- (intransitive) To be easily visible; to be conspicuous.
- Stains really show up on this white tablecloth.
- (transitive) To make visible; to expose.
- This bright light shows up the dust in the corners of the room.
- I bet the Jayhawk fast break could show up the Nimrod's lack of speed.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To make visible or expose faults and deficiencies in, usually by outdoing, outperforming, or outcompeting another.
- I finished in five minutes and she showed me up by finishing in three.
- (appear) turn up
- French: apparaître, se montrer se pointer
- German: auftauchen, erscheinen
- Russian: (person) объявля́ться
- Spanish: aparecer
- French: humilier
- German: sich zeigen
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