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verbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//tɜːnd//
  • United States//tɝnd//
  • //tɔːnd//
  • //tɔːnt//

In the pattern "X turned Y", indicates that someone has turned (changed) from X into Y.

verb

  1. 1

    In the pattern "X turned Y", indicates that someone has turned (changed) from X into Y.

    a poacher turned gamekeeper

    an art adviser turned perfume maker

  2. 2

    Also a form of turnsimple past and past participle of turn

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).