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Turn in

verb

Make an entrance by turning from a road.

To surrender someone or something to another. Synonyms: deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render. "Render up the prisoners" , "Render the town to the enemy" , "Fork over the money"

Carry out (performances). Synonym: put on. "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game"

Prepare for sleep. Synonyms: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out. "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"

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"Turn in" Quotes from Famous Books

... a turn in the path. I saw their heads close together in earnest conversation. I went ...

— The Betrayal • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... does. Sure he towld me in a confidintial way, just before he wint to turn in last night—if it wasn't yisturday forenoon, for it's meself as niver knows an hour o' the day since the sun became dissipated, and tuck to sitting up all night ...

— The World of Ice • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... their own cure. It is to be lamented, nevertheless, that the remedies are so slow, and that those who wish to apply them seasonably, are not attended to before they suffer in person, in interest, and in reputation. I am not without hopes that matters will soon take a favourable turn in the federal constitution. The discerning part of the community have long since seen the necessity of giving adequate powers to congress for national purposes, and those of a different description must yield to it ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) • John Marshall

... Giacomo Gradenigo on the life of Don Camillo. The unpractised and single-hearted girl heard him in breathless attention, the color of her cheek and the changeful eye betraying the force of her sympathies at each turn in their hazardous adventure. ...

— The Bravo • J. Fenimore Cooper

... lesser orbit revolving faster, and those which had the larger more slowly. Now by reason of the motion of the same, those which revolved fastest appeared to be overtaken by those which moved slower although they really overtook them; for the motion of the same made them all turn in a spiral, and, because some went one way and some another, that which receded most slowly from the sphere of the same, which was the swiftest, appeared to follow it most nearly. That there might be some visible measure of their relative swiftness and slowness as they proceeded ...

— Timaeus • Plato

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