verb
- Place into the hands or custody of.
- usage: "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
- Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position.
- usage: "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
- Move by turning over or rotating.
- usage: "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"
- synonyms: roll
- Turn up, loosen, or remove earth.
- usage: "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"
- Do business worth a certain amount of money.
- usage: "The company turns over ten million dollars a year"
- Cause to move around a center so as to show another side of.
- usage: "turn a page of a book"
- synonyms: turn
- Turn from an upright or normal position.
- usage: "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"
- Turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse.
- usage: "flip over the pork chop"; "turn over the pancakes"
- Think about carefully; weigh.
- usage: "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
- synonyms: consider, debate, moot, deliberate
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