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Turn over   /tərn ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Turn over

verb
1.
Place into the hands or custody of.  Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, reach.  "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
2.
Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position.  Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, overturn, tip over, tump over, upset.  "The clumsy customer turned over the vase" , "He tumped over his beer"
3.
Move by turning over or rotating.  Synonym: roll.  "Turn over on your left side"
4.
Turn up, loosen, or remove earth.  Synonyms: cut into, delve, dig.  "Turn over the soil for aeration"
5.
Do business worth a certain amount of money.
6.
Cause to move around a center so as to show another side of.  Synonym: turn.
7.
Turn from an upright or normal position.  Synonyms: overturn, tip over, tump over.  "The canoe tumped over"
8.
Turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse.  Synonyms: flip, flip over.  "Turn over the pancakes"
9.
Think about carefully; weigh.  Synonyms: consider, debate, deliberate, moot.  "Turn the proposal over in your mind"





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"Turn over" Quotes from Famous Books



... to him, therefore, to watch Defago turn over the canoe upon the shore, pack the paddles carefully underneath, and then proceed to "blaze" the spruce stems for some distance on either side of an almost invisible trail, with the careless remark thrown ...
— The Wendigo • Algernon Blackwood
... Kye, aided by Drs. Brown and Mason; for about that time Dr. U. G. Mason, another colored physician, had bought Mr. Martin's interest in the company and had become a partner in the concern. My instructions to the management were to turn over to my father my share of the net proceeds of the business while I was away. My share of the profits kept the family going. My stay at Meharry this last term was most pleasant. I had been promoted to the dignified position of assistant to Dr. W. M. Savier, who ...
— Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements • Various
... Railway Guide should be sufficient for any ordinary library; it will be time enough to go beyond these when the mass of useful and entertaining matter which they provide has been mastered. Nevertheless, I admit that sometimes, if not particularly busy, I stop at a second-hand bookstall and turn over a book or two ...
— Essays on Life, Art and Science • Samuel Butler
... was all over Mr. Vinegar said cheerfully, "You are too violent, lovey. You broke the pickle-jar, and now you've nearly broken every bone in my body. I think we had better turn over a new leaf and begin afresh. I shall take service as a gardener, and you can go as a housemaid, until we have enough money to buy a new pickle-jar. There are as good ones in the shop as ever came ...
— English Fairy Tales • Flora Annie Steel
... philosophically," I replied, "only because your lot happens to have undergone such a change. From a slave, you have become an absolute and sovereign mistress. The book of rules is in your hands; you turn over its leaves wherever you like; you open it at whatever page suits you; and if the book should chance to give you a severe rebuke, you never let others know this. Human nature was ever thus. No, no, madame; you can never make one believe that a religious life is in itself such ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre


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