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单词 turn in
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turn in

1. phrasal verb
When you turn in, you go to bed.
[informal]
Would you like some tea before you turn in? [VERB PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
If you turn someone in, you take them to the police or tell the police where they are because they are suspected of committing a crime. If you turn yourself in, you go to the police because you have been involved in a crime.
He has been given until noon today to turn himself in to the authorities. [VERB noun PARTICLE + to]
There would be strong incentives to turn someone in. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
There has been enough death and destruction. Please turn yourself in. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
I might today hesitate to turn in a burglar. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
3. phrasal verb
When you turn in a completed piece of work, especially written work, you give it to the person who asked you to do it.
Now we wait for them to turn in their essays. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
I want everybody to turn a report in. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
4. phrasal verb
If you turn something in, you return it to the place or person you borrowed it from.
[mainly US]
I went back to the station-house to turn in my badge and gun. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
The official showed up to tell her to turn in her library books. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
See full dictionary entry for turn

turn in in British English

verb (adverb) informal
1. (intransitive)
to go to bed for the night
2. (transitive)
to hand in; deliver
to turn in an essay
3. (transitive)
to deliver (someone accused of a crime) into police custody
4. 
to give up or conclude (something)
we turned in the game when it began to rain
5. (transitive)
to record (a score, etc)
6.  turn in on oneself

turn in in American English

1. 
to make a turn into; enter
2. 
to point (the toes) inward
3.  US
to deliver; hand in
4.  US
to inform on or hand over, as to the police
5. 
to give back; return
6. 
to fold over; double
7.  Informal
to go to bed
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Examples of 'turn in' in a sentence
turn in

As always the sight of the rounded twin domes of the house from the turn in the road occasioned a little surge of joy.
Appiganesi, Lisa DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Slowly the questions began to turn in my brain like a screensaver on a computer.
Anthony Masters CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD (2001)
The man with the second had it roughest, having to awake for a few hours in the dark, then turn in again.
Raymond E. Feist RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA (1995)

All related terms of 'turn in'

in turn
You use in turn to refer to actions or events that are in a sequence one after the other, for example because one causes the other.
turn in on oneself
to withdraw or cause to withdraw from contact with others and become preoccupied with one's own problems
turn in your grave
if someone who is dead would turn in their grave , they would be very angry or upset about something that is happening now if they knew about it
turn in their grave
If you say that someone who is dead would turn in their grave at something that is happening now , you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive .
to make someone turn in their grave
to do something that would have shocked or distressed (someone now dead )
make someone turn (over) in his (or her) grave
to be or do something that would have shocked or distressed someone now dead
to twist the knife twist the knife in sb's wound/turn the knife in sb's wound
If you twist the knife or if you turn the knife in someone's wound , you do or say something to make an unpleasant situation they are in even more unpleasant.

Chinese translation of 'turn in'

turn in

vi

  1. (inf, = go to bed) 睡觉(覺) (shuìjiào)

vt

  1. [oneself] (to police) 自首 (zìshǒu)
  2. [sb else] (to police) 告发(發) (gàofā)
See turn

Nearby words of
turn in

  • turn away
  • turn back
  • turn down
  • turn in
  • turn into
  • turn of events
  • turn of phrase

Related terms of
turn in

  • in turn
(phrasal verb) 
Definition
to go to bed for the night
Would you like some tea before you turn in?
Synonyms
go to bed
I go to bed quite early.
go to sleep
hit the sack (slang)
I hit the sack early.
retire for the night
hit the hay (slang)
See turn

Additional synonyms

in the sense of hit the sack
Definition
to go to bed
I hit the sack early.
Synonyms
go to bed,
retire,
turn in (informal),
bed down,
hit the hay (slang)

Nearby words of
turn in

  • turn a deaf ear to something
  • turn against someone
  • turn back
  • turn in
  • turn of events
  • turn of mind
  • turn of phrase

Related terms of
turn in

  • in turn
  • turn someone in
  • turn something in

Synonyms of 'turn in'

turn in

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