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  • 11turn — 1 verb CHANGE DIRECTION/POSITION 1 a) YOUR BODY (I) to move your body so that you are looking in a different direction: Ricky turned and walked away. (+ around/round/away etc): I turned around quickly to see if someone was following. | Dan turned …

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  • 12turn — turn1 [ tɜrn ] verb *** ▸ 1 change position ▸ 2 change direction ▸ 3 make circular movement ▸ 4 do/become something else ▸ 5 become particular age ▸ 6 move page to other side ▸ 7 about stomach ▸ 8 milk: become sour ▸ 9 affect game/fight ▸ 10… …

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  • 13turn — I. verb Etymology: Middle English; partly from Old English tyrnan & turnian to turn, from Medieval Latin tornare, from Latin, to turn on a lathe, from tornus lathe, from Greek tornos; partly from Anglo French turner, tourner to turn, from… …

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  • 14turn */*/*/ — I UK [tɜː(r)n] / US [tɜrn] verb Word forms turn : present tense I/you/we/they turn he/she/it turns present participle turning past tense turned past participle turned 1) a) [intransitive/transitive] to change the position of your body or head so… …

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  • 15turn — [[t]tɜ͟ː(r)n[/t]] ♦ turns, turning, turned (Turn is used in a large number of other expressions which are explained under other words in the dictionary. For example, the expression turn over a new leaf is explained at leaf.) 1) VERB When you turn …

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  • 16good — see if you can’t be good, be careful a good beginning makes a good ending there’s many a good cock come out of a tattered bag no good deed goes unpunished he is a good dog who goes to church the good die young …

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  • 17one — see when one door shuts, another opens one for sorrow, two for mirth; three for a wedding, four for a birth one for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow one nail drives out another one size does not fit all …

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  • 18turn — noun see one good turn deserves another turn about is fair play verb see a bad penny always turns up clergymen’s sons always turn out badly there is always one who kisses, and one who turns the cheek …

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  • 19One If by Clam, Two If by Sea — Family Guy episode Peter, Lois, and Nigel Pinchley. Episode no …

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  • 20turner — turn ► VERB 1) move in a circular direction wholly or partly around an axis. 2) move into a different position, especially so as to face or move in the opposite direction. 3) change in nature, state, form, or colour; make or become. 4) shape on a …

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