English
Verb
to show 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.
- transitive To outperform or one-up, often in an arrogant manner.
#: I finished in five minutes and she showed me up by finishing in three.
- transitive To make visible; to expose.
#: I bet the Jayhawk fast break could show up the Nimrod's lack of speed.
Usage notes
Sense 1 is intransitive.
Sense 2, the object is normally a person rather than a thing. It may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.
Sense 3, the object can only be after the particle, even when it is a pronoun.
Translations
Bulgarian: показвам �е (1), идвам (1), за�ен�вам (2)
French: apparaître (1), se montrer (1), montrer (3)
Portuguese: aparecer
Russian: об��вл����� (1, person), на�оди���� (1, object)
Synonyms
turn up (1)
Related terms
show off
Category:English idioms
Category:English phrasal verbs
ja:show up
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