turn sth up
— phrasal verb with turn uk/tɜːn/us/tɝːn/verb
(FOLD)
to make a piece of clothing or part of a piece of clothing shorter, by folding the material and sewing it into position:
You could always turn the sleeves up.
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Knitting & sewing
- appliqué
- backing
- baste
- bind
- bobbin
- bodkin
- cable stitch
- handknitted
- hem
- knit
- knitter
- knitting
- needle
- seamstress
- sew sth up
- sewing
- sewing machine
- shorten
- spinner
- tack
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(DISCOVER)
informal to discover something, especially information, after a lot of searching:
See what you can turn up about the family in the files.
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Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- intrusion
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch
- pitch invasion
- rock
- roll up! idiom
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