Phrasal Verbs With "Turn"

Turn against

• Meaning: Rebel or oppose to something formerly supported
• Example: They turned against their leader.

Turn against

• Meaning: Set against or in opposition to something
• Example: She turned her umbrella against the wind.

Turn against

• Meaning: Use to the disadvantage or injury of
• Example: They turned their arms against their former allies.

“Turn around” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn around

• Meaning: Physically rotate horizontally 360 degrees
• Example: Turn around once or twice so I can see your new dress.

Turn around

• Meaning: Change to the opposite direction from a previous position
• Example: She turned her position around and now she is in favor of the merger.

Turn around

• Meaning: Reverse the expected outcome of a game, usually from a losing position to a winning one
• Example: The team really turned it around in the second half for a great win.

Turn around

• Meaning: Reverse a trend, usually towards a more favorable outcome
• Example: The new management team has really turned the company around and they expect a good profit next year.

Turn around

• Meaning: Be duplicitous
• Example: You can’t just turn around and say that it was all my fault.

Turn around

• Meaning: Consider from a different viewpoint
• Example: Let’s turn that around and look at it from another angle.

Turn around

• Meaning: Produce; to output; to generate
• Example: We can turn around 500 units by next week.

Turn around

• Meaning: Effect a positive reversal of a trend
• Example: Let’s turn this around 180 degrees and enjoy the rest of our vacation.

Turn around

• Meaning: Make a situation worse by trying to make it better
• Example: They turned it around 360 degrees and now they’re losing even more money.

“Turn off” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn off

• Meaning: Power down; to stop a device by switching it off
• Example: Turn off the machine and unplug it when you leave.

Turn off

• Meaning: Repulse, disgust, or discourage
• Example: Cigarette smoking really turns me off.

Turn off

• Meaning: Leave a road; to exit
• Example: Turn off at the next exit so we can have lunch.

“Turn on” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn on

• Meaning: Depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject
• Example: The argument turned on the question of whether or not jobs would be lost.

Turn on

• Meaning: Power up (a device), to start, to cause to start operating
• Example: Please turn the lights on so I can see what I’m reading.

Turn on

• Meaning: Start operating; to power up, to become on
• Example: My computer won’t turn on.

Turn on

• Meaning: Violently rebel against; to suddenly attack
• Example: Suddenly all his friends turned on him.

Turn on

• Meaning: Fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to
• Example: Attractive packaging can turn buyers on to a product.

Turn out

• Meaning: Result; end up
• Example: I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better.

“Turn out” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn out

• Meaning: Attend; show up
• Example: Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade.

Turn out

• Meaning: Extinguish a light or other device
• Example: Turn out the lights before you leave.

Turn out

• Meaning: Become apparent or known
• Example: It turns out that he just made a lucky guess.

Turn out

• Meaning: Produce; make
• Example: The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day.

Turn out

• Meaning: Leave a road
• Example: Turn out at the third driveway.

Turn out

• Meaning: Remove from a mould, bowl etc.
• Example: Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it.

Turn out

• Meaning: Refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict
• Example: The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.

Turn back

• Meaning: Reverse direction and retrace one’s steps
• Example: Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back to the office.

Turn back

• Meaning: Return to a previous state of being
• Example: Once we take this decision, there’s no turning back.

Turn back

• Meaning: Prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress
• Example: The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.

Turn back

• Meaning: Adjust to a previous setting
• Example: In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.

Turn back

• Meaning: Fold something back; to fold down
• Example: When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.

“Turn down” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn down

• Meaning: Refuse, decline, or deny
• Example: He turned down all our offers of help.

Turn down

• Meaning: Reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light
• Example: When it starts to boil, turn down the heat to a simmer.

Turn down

• Meaning: Reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction
• Example: Turn down the blankets to let them air out.

Turn in

• Meaning: Submit something; to give
• Example: He turned in his paperwork to the main office.

Turn in

• Meaning: Relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities
• Example: The thief finally turned himself in at the police station.

Turn in

• Meaning: Go to sleep; retire to bed
• Example: I’m tired, so I think I’ll turn in early tonight.

Turn into

• Meaning: Transform into; become
• Example: The carriage turned into a pumpkin at midnight.