turn in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns in
form: turning in
form: turned in
form: turned in
Senses: examples: text: He turned in his paperwork to the main office.
text: The actors turned in a formulaic performance.
synonyms: word: hand in
word: accord
word: add
word: assign
word: award
word: bestow
word: bequeath
word: confer
word: contribute
word: deliver
word: do
word: donate
word: furnish
word: give
word: give away
word: grant
word: hand
word: hand in
word: hand over
word: make over
word: minister
word: pass
word: present
word: provide
word: render
word: supply
word: turn in
word: turn over
glosses: To submit something; to give.
examples: text: The thief finally turned himself in at the police station.
text: My nosy next-door neighbor turned me in for building my garage without a permit.
synonyms: word: capitulate
word: submit
word: relinquish
word: give up
word: abandon
word: bend
word: capitulate
word: cave in
word: cede
word: deplore
word: fall in line
word: give over
word: give in
word: give up
word: give way
word: knuckle under
word: relinquish
word: submit
word: surrender
word: strike one's flag
word: strike the colors
word: strike the flag
word: throw in the towel
word: throw up one's hands
word: turn in
word: wave the white flag
word: yield
word: inform
word: grass up
word: snitch
word: bewray
word: blow the whistle
word: clepe
word: denounce
word: dime
word: dob
word: drop a dime
word: drop a dime on someone
word: finger
word: fink
word: fizgig
word: inform
word: inform on
word: grass on
word: grass up
word: lolly up
word: name names
word: nark
word: peach
word: rat on
word: rat out
word: roll on
word: sing
word: snitch
word: snitch up
word: squeak
word: squeal
word: tattle
word: tell
word: tell all
word: tell on
word: tell tales
word: tip off
word: turn in
glosses: To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
examples: text: I'm tired, so I think I'll turn in early tonight.
text: "Landlord," said I, "tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 27:
synonyms: word: hit the sack
word: retire
word: couch a hogshead
word: go to bed
word: go to sleep
word: hit the hay
word: hit the sack
word: retire
word: seek one's virtuous couch
word: turn in
word: turn into a pumpkin
glosses: To go to bed; to retire to bed.
examples: text: At that point Leicester were playing with drive and ambition but they were undone by two goals in three minutes. First, Vieira turned in a rebound after the defender Souleymane Bamba had blocked David Silva's shot on the line.
ref: 2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Guardian Online:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
Related terms: turn
turn into
turn over