turn out
— phrasal verb with turn uk/tɜːn/us/tɝːn/verb
(HAPPEN)
B2 to happen in a particular way or to have a particular result, especially an unexpected one:
As events turned out, we were right to have decided to leave early.
How did the recipe turn out?
B2 to be known or discovered finally and surprisingly:
[ + to infinitive ] The truth turned out to be stranger than we had expected.
[ + that ] It turns out that she had known him when they were children.
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- After all that media attention, the whole event turned out to be a bit of a damp squib, with very few people attending.
- The party turned out to be a huge disappointment.
- The news report about the explosion turned out to be false.
- She thought she was pregnant, but it turned out to be a false alarm .
- My fears turned out to be groundless.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go hand in hand with sth idiom
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- turn up
- underway
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Revealing secrets & becoming known
(GO)
B2 If people turn out for an event, they go to be there or to watch:
Thousands of people turned out to welcome the team home.
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turn up (somewhere)
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- hove
- intrusion
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch invasion
- rock
- roll up! idiom
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