Word Finder - turn

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(heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.

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(heading) To change condition or attitude.

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To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.

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(usually with over) To complete.

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They say they can turn the parts in two days.

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To make (money); turn a profit.

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We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.

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Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.

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To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.

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Ivory turns well.

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To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

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To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

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To translate.

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to turn the Iliad

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To magically or divinely attack undead.

But let's see how things turn out.

He reached back and tried to turn on the lights.

So, when is it your turn to cook?

Shall he turn his spring into summer?

It was her turn to do some studying.

That was certainly a surprising turn of events!

Is it my turn to watch?

It was Adrienne's turn to frown.

It was Adrienne's turn to make a face.

We don't turn on one another.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

Pierre was no longer able to turn away and close his eyes.

When it came to Natasha's turn to choose a partner, she rose and, tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran timidly to the corner where Denisov sat.

She started to turn.

It's a one way visit, and that is what you fear most, the possibility you turn into what you hate.

They had promised to stand by each other, and now it was her turn.

When he did turn over his soul to her, she dumped him.

You forgot to turn off your radio.

Natasha gazed at them and was ready to cry because it was not she who was dancing that first turn of the waltz.

Having crossed over, by a forced march, to the Tula road beyond the Pakhra, the Russian commanders intended to remain at Podolsk and had no thought of the Tarutino position; but innumerable circumstances and the reappearance of French troops who had for a time lost touch with the Russians, and projects of giving battle, and above all the abundance of provisions in Kaluga province, obliged our army to turn still more to the south and to cross from the Tula to the Kaluga road and go to Tarutino, which was between the roads along which those supplies lay.

From the corner of her eye, she saw him turn to watch her.

Jonathan hurried off to bible class and it was Carmen's turn to help out with the infants, so she took Destiny with her.

Her time was too short to turn away a tall, dark, handsome, intriguing, dangerous stranger she met on the beach in the moonlight who smelled good.

I know the lessons you taught me will help him turn out well.

He looked at each of us in turn.

It was Betsy's turn.

She looked at each of us in turn.

It was my turn.

Talon's men turn them into killers who take the lives of the innocent.

Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something.

She set herself a task on her stocking and resolved not to turn round till it was finished.

He glanced at their joined hands, then at Lisa and Howard in turn.

I can turn anything into something else the same size, but I'd never tried with a person before.

But in the dark, just feeling around for 'em—the stones I'd left—I was scared we might mess up and make a wrong turn.

The startled cry made him turn.

Somewhere up ahead was a sharp turn.

He maneuvered the car around the sharp turn.

He had moved to receptors and enkephalins before Martha covered her ears and yelled, You're turn!

Only if you turn into a bad guy.

Turn you into a rock.

I know, I know, I'll turn into a princess.

She started to turn, expecting to see Talal.

Guess it's my turn.

You won't turn me against him.

Just don't turn your back on your son.

This week it's the Catholic's turn.

They reached the first turn.

We couldn't have taken a wrong turn!

It was the man's turn to nod.

She backed the car up to turn around.