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Turn out

verb

Be shown or be found to be. Synonyms: prove, turn up. "The medicine turned out to save her life" , "She turned up HIV positive"

Prove to be in the result or end.

Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery.

Result or end. Synonym: come out.

Come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons.

Bring forth,. Synonym: bear. "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"

Put out or expel from a place. Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, eject, exclude, turf out.

Come and gather for a public event.

Outfit or equip, as with accessories.

10.

Turn outward. Synonyms: rotate, splay, spread out. "Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

11.

Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch. Synonyms: cut, switch off, turn off. "Cut the engine" , "Turn out the lights"

12.

Get up and out of bed. Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, uprise. "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"

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"Turn out" Quotes from Famous Books

... his partner are embarking every sixpence they can spare in buying town and suburban lots at Melbourne. I know every street and alley in that wonderful city (containing near a hundred houses) on the map, but I am not very likely to go there ever. Let us hope that Sam's speculations will turn out profitable. ...

— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley

... they were not memorable. Self-men try to gather in the results to themselves. The world-man wants to give something to his people—the best he has from his hand or brain or spirit. That's the transaction—the most important in any life—to turn out instead of in.... Here I am repeating the old formula for the making of men, as if in the thrill of the absolutely new—the eternal verity of ...

— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort

... scarce forbear the fellow," said St. Ronan's; "and yet I cannot well tell where my dislike to him lies—but it would be d——d folly to turn out with him for nothing; and so, honest Mick, I will be as quiet as ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... Mr. Van Brunt to know what's going on in the house. Is that what you call made ready for washing? Now just have the goodness to scrape every plate clean off and put them nicely in a pile here; and turn out the slops out of the tea-cups and saucers and set them by themselves. Well! what makes you handle them so? Are you afraid they'll ...

— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner

... burying me or saying good-bye for ever," he said somewhat oddly. He attempted to smile, but it did not turn out a smile. "But who knows, perhaps it is the last time we shall see each other..." he let slip accidentally. It was what he was thinking, and ...

— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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