turn

adapt, fit

Synonyms: derange, discompose, disgust, disorder, make one sick, nauseate, revolt, unbalance, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset

Antonyms: make well

change one’s mind; defect

revolution, curving

Synonyms: address, appeal, apply, approach, bend, be predisposed to, 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

Synonyms: about-face, angle, bend, bias, bow, branch, change, changeabout, circle, circuit, circulation, circumvolution, corner, curve, cycle, departure, detour, deviation, direction, drift, flection, flexure, fork, gyration, gyre, heading, hook, pirouette, pivot, quirk, retroversion, reversal, reverse, reversion, right-about, roll, rotation, round, shift, spin, spiral, swing, tack, tendency, trend, turnabout, turning, twist, twisting, wheel, whirl, wind, winding, yaw

sudden change

Synonyms: alteration, bend, branch, crotch, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, digression, distortion, divarication, double, fork, modification, mutation, shift, tack, twist, variation, warp, yaw

Antonyms: stagnation

chance, opportunity

Synonyms: accomplishment, act, action, bit, bout, crack, deed, favor, fling, gesture, go, go around, move, period, round, routine, say, service, shift, shot, spell, stint, succession, time, tour, trick, try

Antonyms: failure, miss

walk, outing

Synonyms: airing, circuit, constitutional, drive, excursion, jaunt, promenade, ramble, ride, saunter, spin, stroll

aptitude, knack

Synonyms: affinity, aptness, bent, bias, bump, disposition, faculty, flair, genius, gift, head, inclination, leaning, predisposition, propensity, talent

Antonyms: inability

scare

Synonyms: attack, blow, fit, fright, jolt, seizure, shock, spell, start, surprise

revolve, curve

Synonyms: arc, bend, circle, circulate, circumduct, come around, corner, cut, eddy, go around, go round, ground, gyrate, gyre, hang a left, hang a right, incline, loop, make a left, make a right, move in a circle, negotiate, orbit, oscillate, pass, pass around, pirouette, pivot, roll, rotate, round, spin, sway, swing, swivel, take a bend, twirl, twist, vibrate, weave, wheel, whirl, wind, yaw

reverse; change course

Synonyms: about-face, aim, alter, alternate, backslide, call off, capsize, change, change position, convert, curve, depart, detour, detract, deviate, digress, direct, diverge, double back, face about, go back, incline, inverse, invert, loop, move, pivot, rechannel, recoil, redirect, regress, relapse, retrace, return, revert, sheer, shift, shunt, shy away, sidetrack, subvert, sway, swerve, swing, swirl, switch, tack, transform, twist, upset, vary, veer, volte-face, wheel, whip, whirl, zigzag

Synonyms: alter, become, change, change into, come, convert, divert, fashion, form, get, go, grow into, metamorphose, modify, mold, mutate, pass into, put, refashion, remake, remodel, render, run, shape, transfigure, transform, translate, transmute, transpose, vary, wax

become sour or tainted

Synonyms: acidify, become rancid, break down, crumble, curdle, decay, decompose, disintegrate, dull, ferment, go bad, molder, putrefy, rot, sour, spoil, taint

use; resort to

sicken

Synonyms: apostatize, bring round, change sides, desert, go over, influence, persuade, prejudice, prevail upon, rat, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, talk into, tergiversate, tergiverse

twist a body part

Synonyms: bruise, crick, dislocate, hurt, sprain, strain, wrench

Ali turned his gun on us.

to turn the key in a lock

The motor turns the wheel.

She turned her eyes in my direction.

Mahmood turned his back on me.

to turn the door handle

to turn several table legs

to turn a pretty phrase

to turn a screw

Amjadi turns the ends of his mustache up.

to turn the pages of a book

to turn a phonograph record

Before planting we must turn over the soil with a shovel.

Fry the fish for three minutes, then turn it and fry the other side.

She turned the bottle upside down.

When I saw the putrid food my stomach turned.

to turn a blow

to turn someone from his purpose

do not turn from the path of righteousness!

Tomorrow he is going to turn fifty.

to turn an attack

The criticism turned against the critic himself.

We turned back an enemy attack.

The rebels turned the political prisoners loose.

to turn one's thoughts to monetary matters

to turn one's hand to writing

Later on he turned his attention to music.

to turn knowledge to good account

As his debts increased, he turned to crime.

to turn bitter with age

to turn cream into butter

to turn produce into hard cash

a writer turned actor

turned sick by the sight

Water turns into ice.

to turn Hassan's remarks to ridicule

Asghar turned against his former friends.

My father turned Hafez' poems into English.

Attar turned that story into a poem.

Too much success has turned his head.

Her mind has been turned by grief.

After a while, the milk started turning.

Leaves turn in the fall.

The key won't turn.

The car turned left and then right.

My head ached and the room was turning around my head.

Turn right at the end of the street.

The teacher's head turned toward me.

Turn left at the next intersection.

at every turn

by turns

call the turn

in turn

out of turn

take a turn for the better (or worse)

take turns

to a turn

turn and turn about (or turn about)

turn down

turn down

turn in

turn off

turn off

turn off

turn off

turn on

turn out

turn out

turn out

turn over

turn to

turn up

turn up