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verb

  • (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
  • (heading) To change condition or attitude.
  • To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • (usually with over) To complete.

    "They say they can turn the parts in two days."

  • To make (money); turn a profit.

    "We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme."

  • Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.

    "Ivory turns well."

  • To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
  • To translate.

    "to turn the Iliad"

  • To magically or divinely attack undead.

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