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Turn over

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.

    "Turn over the box and look at the bottom."

  2. 2
    think about carefully; weigh wordnet
  3. 3
    To relinquish; give back. idiomatic, transitive

    "They turned over the evidence to the authorities."

  4. 4
    turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse wordnet
  5. 5
    To transfer. idiomatic, transitive

    "But what is to be done with our manufacturing population […] This one thing, of doing for them by ‘underselling all people,’ and filling our own bursten pockets and appetites by the road; and turning over all care for any ‘population,’ or human or divine consideration except cash only, to the winds, with a “Laissez-faire” and the rest of it: this is evidently not the thing."

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  1. 6
    turn up, loosen, or remove earth wordnet
  2. 7
    To produce, complete, or cycle through. idiomatic, transitive

    "They can turn over about three hundred units per hour."

  3. 8
    move by turning over or rotating wordnet
  4. 9
    To generate (a certain amount of money from sales). transitive

    "The business turned over £1m last year."

  5. 10
    turn from an upright or normal position wordnet
  6. 11
    To mull, ponder transitive

    "Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff"

  7. 12
    cause to overturn from an upright or normal position wordnet
  8. 13
    To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run. intransitive, transitive
  9. 14
    cause to move around a center so as to show another side of wordnet
  10. 15
    To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score). transitive

    "The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games."

  11. 16
    place into the hands or custody of wordnet
  12. 17
    To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property. transitive

    "I've turned over the whole place, but I still can't find my glasses."

  13. 18
    do business worth a certain amount of money wordnet
  14. 19
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.

    "The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'."

Etymology

From turn + over.

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