turn up missing en · VERB
Meanings
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To be discovered to have disappeared.
He would have hidden the silver with the gold to wait there till his "revenge" was satisfied, and then he would have had the misfortune to find that money turn up missing.
1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| turned up missing | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| turned up missing | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| turning up missing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| turns up missing | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |