Crossword-Solution: TURN 4 letters, 396 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

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Word Word Type Definition
Turn v. t. To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to
give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round,
either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so
as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face
otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the
head.
Turn v. t. To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost;
to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of;
to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a
coat.
Turn v. t. To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to
direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both
literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to
turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the
attention to or from something.
Turn v. t. To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to
another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to
devote.
Turn v. t. To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to
alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or
into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as,
to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn
prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian;
to turn good to evil, and the like.
Turn v. t. To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by
applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of
stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
Turn v. t. Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in
proper condition; to adapt.
Turn v. t. To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.
Turn v. t. To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to
turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.
Turn v. t. To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.
Turn v. i. To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve
entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face
differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a
spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
Turn v. i. Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge;
to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
Turn v. i. To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to
issue.
Turn v. i. To be deflected; to take a different direction or
tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be
transferred; as, to turn from the road.
Turn v. i. To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become
transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood
turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn
Mohammedan.
Turn v. i. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory
turns well.
Turn v. i. To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
Turn v. i. To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
Turn v. i. To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
Turn v. i. To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of
scales.
Turn v. i. To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said
of the tide.
Turn v. i. To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to
facilitate delivery.
Turn v. i. To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary
substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
Turn n. The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about,
a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
Turn n. Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order,
position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn
of the tide.
Turn n. One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of
occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend;
a meander.
Turn n. A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it
began; a short walk; a stroll.
Turn n. Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with
another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or
incidental occasion; appropriate time.
Turn n. Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of
kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
Turn n. Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not
serve his turn.
Turn n. Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or
figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as,
the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
Turn n. A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring
symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad
turn.
Turn n. A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called
from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which
was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
Turn n. A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a
pin or a cleat.
Turn n. A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Turn n. A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every
hundred within his county.
Turn n. Monthly courses; menses.
Turn n. An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly
consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made,
with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being
sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last,
the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked
note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in
which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.

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TURN anagram RNUT, RUNT

We have 396 clues for the answer “TURN”

Clue Answers
"No Left ___" 1 answer
"No U ___" 1 answer
"One good ___ . . . " 1 answer
"One good ___ deserves another." 1 answer
"The ___ of the Screw" 1 answer
"The ___ of the Screw": James 1 answer
"The smallest worm will ___."—King Henry VI. 1 answer
*Right face, e.g. 1 answer
A short act. 1 answer
Act, at the Palace. 1 answer
Action or deed. 1 answer
Action, usually good. 1 answer
An action, usually good. 1 answer
Apply one's attention (to) 1 answer
At bat, so to speak 1 answer
Become a traitor 1 answer
Become fermented 1 answer
Begin a retreat 1 answer
Betray, with "in" 1 answer
Century threshold 1 answer
Chance at the spinner 1 answer
Chance in a game 1 answer
Chance to go 1 answer
Chance to play in a board game 1 answer
Chance to play in a game 1 answer
Chance to play, on game night 1 answer
Chance to roll the dice, say 1 answer
Chance to spin, roll or draw 1 answer
Change color, as leaves 1 answer
Change color, like leaves 1 answer
Change one's way? 1 answer
Community card between "flop" and "river" in hold'em 1 answer
Defect or deflect 1 answer
Dice roll, say 1 answer
Do a 180, for example 1 answer
Do an about-face 1 answer
Done to a __ 1 answer
Driver's test instruction 1 answer
ELO "___ to Stone" 1 answer
Emulate Vanna 1 answer
Faucets can do this 1 answer
Form on a lathe. 1 answer
GPS command 1 answer
GPS instruction 1 answer
Game round 1 answer
Get in a rotation 1 answer
Go bad, kind of like the foods circled in this puzzle 1 answer
Go left or right 1 answer
Go left, say 1 answer
Go off; act 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TURN (5)

The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals then, and until the evening of which we have now to tell, Wendy had never seen the lagoon by moonlight, less from fear, for of course Peter would have accompanied her, than because she had strict rules about every one being in bed by seven.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Therefore what he gives (Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found No ingrateful food: and food alike those pure Intelligential substances require As doth your Rational; and both contain Within them every lower facultie Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste, Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate, And corporeal to incorporeal turn.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Man and His Two Sweethearts A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Again, he would sometimes walk up to us, and give us orders as though he was upon the point of starting on a long journey, turn his back upon us, and make as though he was going to the house to get ready; and, before he would get half way thither, he would turn short and crawl into a fence-corner, or behind some tree, and there watch us till the going down of the sun.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
When he heard his daughter’s announcement, he first prudently corked his beer bottle and then leaped to his feet and had a turn of temper.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with TURN (3)

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in…
Bob Marley
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 371 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).