Phrasal Verbs with TURN
- COME | GET | GO | PUT | TAKE | TURN
- turn away
- (separable) to reject; refuse; dismiss
The church turned away the people with no money to pay.
- turn away
- (separable) to repel; deflect
His sheer arrogance turned away many potential friends.
- turn away
- (intransitive) to move so that you are not facing someone
When Max entered the room, Mary turned away. She could not face him after what he had done.
- turn back
- (intransitive) to return; revert; backtrack
We started on our trip, but the weather was so bad that we decided to turn back.
- turn back
- (separable) to drive away; to halt the advance of
The soldiers tried with all of their might to turn back the invading forces.
- turn down
- (separable) to reject
Bill asked 100 girls to go out on a date with him. All but one turned him down.
- turn down
- (separable) to decrease
Please turn the radio down. It's too loud.
- turn in
- (separable) to submit or give work done for someone
Max turns in his homework almost always on time.
- turn off
- (separable) to switch a machine or electrical device to the off posiiton
Please turn off the lights when you leave the room.
- turn off
- (separable) to disgust
Selfish people really turn me off.
- turn on
- (separable) to switch on ; to cause to operate or flow
Max was bored so he turned the TV on.
- turn on
- (separable) to excite pleasurably
Mathematics turns me on.
- turn out
- (separable) to switch off
Please turn out the lights.
- turn over
- (separable) to invert; rotate
Once the pancake is done on one side, please turn it over to cook the other side.
- turn up
- (separable) to increase
Please turn the radio up. I can hardly hear it.
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