English dictionary

turned

verb

Pronunciation

/tɜːnd/ /tɝnd/

Audio pronunciation

Parts of speech

Definitions

verb

  1. (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
  2. (heading) To change condition or attitude.
  3. To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  4. (usually with over) To complete.
  5. To make (money); turn a profit.
  6. Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  7. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  8. To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  9. To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
  10. To translate.
  11. To magically or divinely attack undead.

Example sentences

They say they can turn the parts in two days.
We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.
Ivory turns well.
to turn the Iliad

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