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Synset

change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense
<verb.motion>   freq. cnt.: 187 freq. cnt.: 187

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sample sentences

"Turn towards me"
"The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"
"She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs"

verb frames

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
They %s the car down the avenue
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
turn turning turn turn turning
also see
turn back turn away turn to
semantic pointers
hyponym
twist flip, flip over, turn over turn on a dime roll, turn over roll over turn around, swing around, swing about toss, flip port face turn off turn away gee about-face caracole corner overturn, turn over, tip over, tump over bend veer, swerve, cut, curve, sheer, trend, slue, slew deflect turn away, bend, deflect avert, turn away turn out, splay, spread out, rotate rotate, circumvolve swivel, pivot spiral, coil, gyrate corkscrew, spiral deviate, divert pronate
hypernym
move
verb group
turn