turn over

VERB
  1. turn from an upright or normal position
    The canoe tumped over
    The big vase overturned
  2. do business worth a certain amount of money
    The company turns over ten million dollars a year
  3. turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
    turn over the pancakes
    flip over the pork chop
  4. move by turning over or rotating
    turn over on your left side
    The child rolled down the hill
  5. place into the hands or custody of
    He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
    hand me the spoon, please
    Turn the files over to me, please
  6. cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
    turn a page of a book
  7. think about carefully; weigh
    Turn the proposal over in your mind
    They considered the possibility of a strike
  8. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
    the clumsy customer turned over the vase
    The cat knocked over the flower vase
    he tumped over his beer
  9. turn up, loosen, or remove earth
    turn over the soil for aeration
    Dig we must
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How To Use turn over In A Sentence

  • No battery could store enough energy to turn over a car's engine.
  • The Merger Fund, the oldest arb fund, has delivered a 10.8% annualized return over the past 10 years, besting the average bond fund's 7.0% return with a comparable level of volatility.
  • Where even the vinously literate search in vain for clues, getting down on their knees to turn over handfuls of soil or gazing down from the crest of the slope in utter bewilderment.
  • The time was just before daybreak, an hour when the uneasiness of the air affected trees and animals, and made even men-sleepers turn over sighingly. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • The step sought by Virginia, known as certiorari before judgment, is one the court has taken only a handful of times, including its 1974 decision ordering President Richard Nixon to turn over Oval Office tape recordings and its 1952 ruling blocking President Harry S Truman from seizing the nation's steel mills. Chron.com Chronicle
  • Retinol can help skin cells turn over faster so you won't have a lackluster complexion in the A.M.
  • It's certainly not easy for a jazz pianist famous for swing to turn over to bebop.
  • Fry for two minutes then turn over and fry for another two minutes.
  • turn over the soil for aeration
  • The sound of the howling was astonishing - not something you could just turn over and ignore. Times, Sunday Times
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