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turn
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of TURN
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a relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure <would you care to take a turn around the garden?>
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a habitual attraction to some activity or thing <an adventurous turn of mind that led him toward more physical activities like biking and skateboarding>
Synonyms affection, affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, bone, devices, disposition, genius, habitude, impulse, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn
Related Words favor, one-sidedness, partisanship, prejudice; endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, knack, talent; addiction, appetite, fancy, fondness, like, liking, preference, taste; forte, speciality, specialty; convention, custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise), routine, trick, way, wont; eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity
Near Antonyms allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disrelish, distaste; detachment, impartiality, neutrality, objectivity; apathy, disinterestedness, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern
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something that curves or is curved <right after this turn in the road you'll find the antiques shop on the right>
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a sudden experiencing of a physical or mental disorder <a sudden turn of dizziness that may have been brought on by a change in her medication>
Related Words recurrence, relapse; brainstorm, convulsion, eclampsia, pang, paroxysm, spasm, throe; agitation, frenzy; breakdown, collapse, prostration
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