Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Turned in.

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  • adjective turned inwards

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Examples

  • One of the boys was raging to the point they had to have him inturned for psychological testing.

    Review: ‘Must Read After My Death’ | We Are Movie Geeks 2009

  • In my self-inturned little world I've only really come to be aware of this meme by way of the countermeme - the rising trend on Twitter, for example, of the tag #welovethenhs.

    #welovethenhs - and some of us dislike misinformation 2009

  • Moreover, it was not only in the last-named that familiar features had reappeared, as invisible till then in her face as the inturned parts of a seed-pod, the eventual opening out of which would never be suspected.

    Time Regained 2003

  • Then she noticed he was a cripple with inturned feet.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Inman followed the woman, noting that she stepped with inturned toes, a style of walking often said to be favored by Indians, though Inman had known many a Cherokee, Swimmer among them, who walked splay-footed as mergansers.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • His face seemed to have grown longer, too, more cadaverous; his eye had an absent, inturned expression.

    The Way Home 2003

  • His eyes were glazed, inturned, as if he were seeing something that was not there.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • His eyes were glazed, inturned, as if he were seeing something that was not there.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • His eyes were glazed, inturned, as if he were seeing something that was not there.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • Inman followed the woman, noting that she stepped with inturned toes, a style of walking often said to be favored by Indians, though Inman had known many a Cherokee, Swimmer among them, who walked splay-footed as mergansers.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

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