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Turn out

verb
Word Frequency: 9.4

Definitions

1.verbTo result; end up.
"I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better."
2.verb(by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well.
"I'm afraid the cake didn't turn out."
3.verbTo attend; show up.
"Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade."
4.verbTo extinguish a light or other device
"Turn out the lights before you leave."
5.verbTo become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
"It turns out that he just made a lucky guess."
6.verbTo produce; make.
"The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day."
7.verbTo leave a road.
"Turn out at the third driveway."
8.verbTo remove from a mould, bowl etc.
"Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it."
9.verbTo refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
"The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk."
10.verb(sex) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
11.verb(sex) To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
12.verbTo put (cattle) out to pasture.
13.verbTo convince to vote
"turn out potential voters"
14.verbTo leave one's work to take part in a strike.
15.verbTo get out of bed; get up.

Synonyms

get uparisespread outriseprovecome outswitch offsplayturf outturn offexcludeexpel
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