turn up missing

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Verb

turn up missing (third-person singular simple present turns up missing, present participle turning up missing, simple past and past participle turned up missing)

  1. To be discovered to have disappeared.
    Antonym: turn up
    • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
      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.