Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To turn in the reverse way, as in a manner to open something.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To turn in a reserve way, especially so as to open something.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
turn in areverse way, especially so as toopen something.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He said that he will left no stone unturn for development of Chitral and solving problems of the people.
Provincial Minister Inaugurates Two Middle Schools for Girls 2009
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Every nook and cranny canvased and not a stone left unturn.
Nebraska Electoral Vote Likely for Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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But they ` re going to unturn (ph) every way they possibly can to find out the answer to what happened.
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The fact is that they unturn the stones half assed.
They Threaten Us With He-Man Almost as Much as The X-Files Movie scifirantergirl 2007
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At day's end, as Russert said on NBC's "Nightly News," it was time for his table to unturn.
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At day's end, as Russert said on NBC's "Nightly News," it was time for his table to unturn.
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Since virtually every Berliner is a potential agent waiting for someone to turn and unturn him, Butler is free to roar through bars and bordellos to his heart's delight, bullying and seducing as the mood takes him while the agents fall out of the trees either way, and writing it all off to limitless expenses.
Armageddon Now? Sheed, Wilfrid 1991
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They learn to turn people into things, but they don't learn how to unturn them; and then, when they get mad in their families – you know how it is about getting mad in families – there is confusion.
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She was not a cultivated old person, and she did not know how to unturn people, and now you see the result.
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When moving, there's no point leaving no stone unturned when unturn...
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