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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To turn or direct inward.
  2. v. Psychology To concentrate (one's interests) upon oneself.
  3. v. Medicine To turn (a tubular organ or part) inward upon itself.
  4. n. Psychology An introverted person.
  5. n. Medicine An anatomical structure that is capable of being introverted.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To turn within; direct inward or interiorly.
  2. In zoology, to turn in, or invert; insheathe a part of within another part.
  3. n. That which is introverted; in zoology, some part or organ which is turned in upon itself, or intus-suscepted.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of a person Who focuses primarily on their own mind, feelings, or affairs.
  2. n. One who focuses primarily on their own mind, feelings, or affairs.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To turn or bend inward.
  2. v. To look within; to introspect.
  3. n. A person who is introverted; one concerned predominantly with himself or his own feelings. Contrasted with extrovert.
  4. n. A person who is shy.
  5. n. (Zoöl.) A part that can be introverted{1}.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts
  2. v. fold inwards
  3. v. turn inside

Etymologies

  1. intro- + Latin vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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