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(verb) pass into a condition gradually, become;"The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" |
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Synonyms: grow |
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Related Words: bald, change |
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(noun) taking a short walk out and back; "we took a turn in the park" |
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Related Words: walk |
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(verb) change color, as of leaves in the Fall; "In Vermont, the leaves turn early" |
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Related Words: colour, discolor, discolour |
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(noun) turning away or in the opposite direction: "he made an abrupt turn away from her" |
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Related Words: change of direction |
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(noun) the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; "he took a turn to the right" |
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Synonyms: turning |
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Related Words: change of course, deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion, kick turn, left, right, stem turn, swerve, swerving, veering |
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(noun) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession; "it is my turn" or "it is still my play" |
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Synonyms: play |
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Related Words: activity, at-bat, attack, bat, down, innings, lead, move, ruff, start, starting, trumping |
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(noun) a favor for someone; "he did me a good turn" |
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Synonyms: good turn |
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Related Words: favor, favour |
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(verb) release something from a container |
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Synonyms: release |
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Related Words: channel, channelize, deflate, throw, transfer, transmit, transport |
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(verb) shape by rotating on a lathe; "turn the legs of the table" |
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Related Words: form |
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(verb) change orientation or direction; "Turn towards me" |
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Related Words: about-face, avert, bend, caracole, coil, corkscrew, corner, curve, cut, deflect, deviate, divert, face, flip, flip over, gee, gyrate, move, overturn, pivot, pronate, revolve, roll, roll over, rotate, sheer, slew, slue, spiral, splay, spread out, supinate, swerve, swing about, swing around, swivel, tip over, toss, trend, turn around, turn away, turn off, turn out, turn over, twist, veer |
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(verb) pass to the other side; of a corner, for example |
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Synonyms: move around |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) to send or let go; "The crowd was turned away at the gate of the governor's mansion" |
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Related Words: direct, send |
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(verb) cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; "turn a page of a book" |
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Synonyms: turn over |
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Related Words: displace, leaf, move |
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(verb) cause to move around, "turn a key"; "turn a wheel"; "he turned her around"; also used in an abstract sense: "turn your attention to this painting" |
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Related Words: displace, leaf, move, reorient |
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(verb) move around an axis or a center; "The wheels are turning" |
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Related Words: go around, move, revolve, rotate |
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(noun) an unforeseen development; "events suddenly took an awkward turn" |
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Synonyms: turn of events, twist |
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Related Words: development |
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(noun) (in sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive |
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Synonyms: bout, round |
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Related Words: bottom, bottom of the inning, period of play, play, playing period, top, top of the inning |
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(verb) change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed" |
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Synonyms: change by reversal, reverse |
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Related Words: alternate, change, commutate, commute, correct, deconsecrate, desecrate, desynchronize, exchange, falsify, flip, flip-flop, interchange, metamorphose, permute, regress, return, revert, right, switch, switch over, transfigure, transmogrify, transpose, turn back, turn the tables, undo |
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(verb) undergo a transformation or a change of position; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism" |
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Synonyms: change state |
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Related Words: Frenchify, acetify, acidify, alkalify, alkalize, ameliorate, apparel, arouse, awake, awaken, basify, be born, become, better, black out, boil, break, break loose, burn, burst forth, calcify, calm, calm down, carbonize, carburize, carnify, catalyze, catch fire, change, chill, chill out, chondrify, citrate, clabber, close, clot, clothe, cloud over, coagulate, coke, combust, come alive, come to, conceive, concentrate, cool, cool down, cool it, cool off, cross-fertilize, curdle, decease, decline, decompress, denitrify, devitrify, die, discharge, disengage, dissolve, dress, emaciate, emancipate, empty, emulsify, enclothe, equilibrate, erupt, esterify, etherify, exit, expire, explode, fade away, fade out, fall, ferment, fill, fill up, fit out, fligh high, flourish, fluctuate, freeze, gain, garb, garment, get, get into, get worse, go, habilitate, heat, heat up, homogenize, hot up, ignite, improve, integrate, ionize, liberate, liquefy, loosen up, lose consciousness, lose weight, meliorate, melt off, open, open up, ossify, overgrow, pass away, pass out, perish, precipitate, prosper, put on, raiment, react, reduce, relapse, relax, revive, secularize, separate from solution, settle down, shut, simmer down, slenderize, slim, slim down, slow down, solvate, sorb, sour, take fire, take up, tangle with, tense, tense up, thicken, thin, thrive, thrombose, tog, turn, unbend, unlax, unwind, wake, wake up, waken, worsen, zonk out |
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(noun) turning or twisting around (in place); "with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room" |
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Synonyms: twist |
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Related Words: motion, move, movement, twiddle |
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(verb) go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured" |
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Synonyms: ferment, sour |
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Related Words: change state, turn |
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(noun) a movement in a new direction; "the turning of the wind" |
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Synonyms: turning |
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Related Words: coming back, gyration, motion, movement, return, reversal, revolution, roll, rotation, swerve, turn around, volution, yaw |
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(verb) to break and turn over earth esp. with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week" |
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Synonyms: plough, plow |
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Related Words: disk, harrow, ridge, till |
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(noun) a circular segment of a curve: "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" |
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Synonyms: bend, crook |
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Related Words: bight, curve, curved shape |
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(verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle" |
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Synonyms: rick, sprain, twist, wrench, wrick |
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Related Words: injure, wound |
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(verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; "He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product" |
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Synonyms: convert, convince, win over |
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Related Words: drive home, persuade, proselytize, ram home |
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(verb) undergo a change or development: "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy" |
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Synonyms: become, turn into, turn to |
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Related Words: add up, amount, boil down, carbonate, come, come down, flocculate, nucleate, reduce, transform, transmute |
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(noun) a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did" |
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Synonyms: act, bit, number, routine |
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Related Words: performance, public presentation |
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(noun) a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" |
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Synonyms: go, spell, tour |
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Related Words: duty period, shift, work shift |
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