turn in
verb- To submit something; to give. · He turned in his paperwork to the main office.· The actors turned in a formulaic performance.
- To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in). · The thief finally turned himself in at the police station.· My nosy next-door neighbor turned me in for building my garage without a permit.
- To go to bed; to retire to bed. · I'm tired, so I think I'll turn in early tonight.
- To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
- To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
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The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master, “You must now go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass; and how can you expect that I can again turn in a moment from an Ass to a Horse?”
Take my advice and turn in.”
“‘Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.’ She smiled back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her key turn in the lock.”
Dantès told them that all hands might turn in, and he would take the helm.
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