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turn around in WordNet English dictionary
verb- improve significantly; go from bad to good
"Her performance in school picked up"
turn around pick up
- turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically
"He turned around to face his opponent"; "My conscience told me to turn around before I made a mistake"
swing around swing about turn around
- improve dramatically
"The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"
turn around
noun- turning in an opposite direction or position
"the reversal of the image in the lens"
reversal turn around
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University
turn around in English Wiktionary
- (noun) (context/idiom/sports) An upset; a suprising comeback.
- (verb) To physically rotate horizontally 360 degrees.
- (verb) (context/idiom/slang) To be duplicitous.
- (verb) (context/idiom/transitive/of an idea) To ponder from a different viewpoint.
- (verb) (context/idiom/colloquial) To produce; to output; to generate "often with "time.""
- (verb) (context/idiom/with "Every time I") Annoyingly repetitive or consistently wrong.
- (verb) (context/idiom/buzzword/with "180 degrees") To effect a positive reversal.
- (verb) (context/idiom/buzzword/with "360 degrees") To make a situation worse by trying to make it better.
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