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| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | revolve, curve |
| Synonyms: | arc, bend, circle, circulate, corner, cut, eddy, ground, gyrate, incline, loop, negotiate, orbit, oscillate, pass, pivot, roll, rotate, round, spin, sway, swing, swivel, twirl, twist, vibrate, weave, wheel, whirl, wind, yaw, circumduct, come around, go around, go round, gyre, hang a left, hang a right, make a left, make a right, move in a circle, pass around, pirouette, take a bend |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reverse; change course |
| Synonyms: | about-face, aim, alter, alternate, backslide, call off, capsize, change, convert, curve, depart, detour, detract, deviate, digress, direct, diverge, double back, go back, incline, inverse, invert, loop, move, pivot, recoil, regress, relapse, retrace, return, revert, sheer, shift, sidetrack, subvert, sway, swerve, swing, swirl, switch, tack, transform, twist, upset, vary, veer, wheel, whip, whirl, zigzag, change position, face about, rechannel, redirect, shunt, shy away, volte-face |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adapt, fit |
| Synonyms: | alter, become, change, come, convert, divert, fashion, form, get, go, metamorphose, modify, mold, mutate, put, remodel, render, run, shape, transform, translate, transpose, vary, wax, change into, grow into, pass into, refashion, remake, transfigure, transmute |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become sour or tainted |
| Synonyms: | crumble, curdle, decay, decompose, disintegrate, dull, ferment, molder, putrefy, rot, sour, spoil, taint, acidify, become rancid, break down, go bad |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use; resort to |
| Synonyms: | address, appeal, apply, approach, be predisposed to, bend, devote, direct, employ, favor, give, go, have recourse, incline, lend, look, prefer, recur, repair, run, tend, throw, turn one's energies to, turn one's hand to, undertake, utilize |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sicken |
| Synonyms: | derange, discompose, disgust, disorder, nauseate, revolt, unbalance, undo, unhinge*, unsettle, upset, make one sick |
| Antonyms: | make well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change one's mind; defect |
| Synonyms: | desert, go over, influence, persuade, prejudice, rat*, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, tergiversate, apostatize, bring round, change sides, prevail upon, talk into, tergiverse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist a body part |
| Synonyms: | bruise, crick, dislocate, hurt, sprain, strain, wrench |
| Main Entry: | altered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changed |
| Synonyms: | adapted, converted, corrected, fitted, fixed, modified, qualified, reformed, remade, remodeled, renovated, revised, spiked, adjusted, amended, cooked, diversified, doctored, redone, refitted, reshaped, retailored, transformed, turned, updated |
| Antonyms: | fixed, held, kept, retained, sustained, continued, maintained, preserved |
| Main Entry: | askew |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked |
| Synonyms: | askance, awry, bent, cockeyed*, curved, knotted, lopsided, oblique, obliquely, off-center, slanted, slanting, twisted, zigzag*, askant, aslant, buckled, catawampus, crookedly, to one side, topsy-turvey, turned, yaw ways |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off course; amiss |
| Synonyms: | afield, askance, askew, astray, badly, bent, cockeyed, crooked, curved, slanting, wrong, zigzag, aslant, turned |
| Antonyms: | ok, on course |
| Main Entry: | curved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bowed, bent |
| Synonyms: | arched, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, elliptical, round, rounded, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, sweeping, twisted, S-shaped, arced, arciform, arrondi, biflected, curvilinear, declinate, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, sigmoid, skewed, swirly, turned, twisting, twisty, wreathed |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | inverse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opposite |
| Synonyms: | changed, contrary, converse, reverse, reversed, reverted, flipped, inverted, transposed, turned, turned over |
| Main Entry: | rancid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, strong-smelling |
| Synonyms: | bad, disagreeable, disgusting, fetid, foul, frowzy, gamy, high, impure, loathsome, malodorous, moldy, musty, nasty, noisome, noxious, off, offensive, putrid, rank, repulsive, sharp, smelly, sour, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, unhealthy, carious, contaminated, curdled, decomposing, evil-smelling, feculent, fusty, nidorous, olid, polluted, putrefactive, putrefied, putrescent, reeky, soured, turned, whiffy |
| Antonyms: | perfumed, sweet |
| Main Entry: | inedible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpalatable |
| Synonyms: | bad, bitter, disagreeable, indigestible, nauseating, poisonous, rancid, rotten, sickening, sour, spoiled, tainted, tasteless, unappetizing, unsavory, yucky*, contaminated, not fit to eat, turned, uneatable, unpleasant-tasting, yukky |
| Antonyms: | appetizing, comestible, delicious, edible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | influenced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected |
| Synonyms: | altered, changed, determined, moved, persuaded, formed, inveigled, motivated, shaped, swayed, turned |
| Main Entry: | operated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conducted |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, contrived, determined, directed, driven, enforced, executed, finished, fulfilled, governed, handled, managed, moved, ordered, practiced, regulated, run, served, supervised, sustained, transported, used, worked, achieved, administered, conveyed, guided, maintained, manipulated, negotiated, performed, promoted, revolved, superintended, transacted, turned, wielded |
| Main Entry: | plowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cultivated |
| Synonyms: | broken, furrowed, tilled, turned |
| Main Entry: | reversed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | turned around |
| Synonyms: | backward, converse, inside out, opposite, contrariwise, everted, inverted, regressive, transposed, turned, turned back |
| Antonyms: | established, ordered, in order |
| Main Entry: | sprained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | twisted |
| Synonyms: | strained, turned, wrenched |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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