1. When you turn up a machine or electrical device you change the controls so that it is producing more of something, for example sound or heat. Examples of use: a) Can you turn the television up, please? I can't hear it. b) The oven isn't hot enough. You need to turn it up. c) [...]

To turn away someone (or turn someone away) means to not let them to enter a place. Examples of use: 1. We were turned away from the bus because it was full. 2. Paul was turned away from the restaurant because he wasn’t wearing a tie. 3. The shelter for the homeless never turns anyone [...]

To turn against someone is to stop liking them and start disliking them and becoming unfriendly towards them. Example of use: 1. The voters turned against their Member of Parliament when he lied to them. 2. The football coach denies reports he turned against his star player. To turn someone against someone, or something, is [...]

To turn to something is to start to do or take something (for example, drink, drugs or crime) because your life is not going well. Examples of use: 1. Kenneth turned to a life of crime when he lost his job. 2. She turned to drink when her husband left her. To turn to somebody [...]

When something turns into something else it becomes that thing. Examples of use: 1. The caterpillar turned into a chrysalis. 2. The handsome prince turned into a frog If someone turns something into something else they change it into that thing. Examples of use: 1. The property developers turned the big old house into four [...]

To turn in is to go to bed. (Informal) Examples of use: 1. It’s late. I think I’ll turn in. 2. You look tired. Why don’t you turn in early? To turn somebody in is to tell the police that this person has committed a crime, or to tell the police where they can find [...]