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S: (v) prove, turn out, turn up (be shown or be found to be) "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"

S: (v) turn out (prove to be in the result or end) "It turns out that he was right"
S: (v) turn out (produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery) "This factory turns out saws"
S: (v) turn out, come out (result or end) "How will the game turn out?"

S: (v) end, stop, finish, terminate, cease (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical) "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

S: (v) turn out (come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons) "How many people turned out that evening?"
S: (v) bear, turn out (bring forth) "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"
S: (v) eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out (put out or expel from a place) "The unruly student was excluded from the game"

S: (v) turn out (come and gather for a public event) "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York"
S: (v) turn out (outfit or equip, as with accessories) "The actors were turned out lavishly"
S: (v) turn out, splay, spread out, rotate (turn outward) "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
S: (v) switch off, cut, turn off, turn out (cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch) "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights"
S: (v) get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise (get up and out of bed) "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"