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Turn out

verb

Be shown or be found to be. Synonyms: prove, turn up. "The medicine turned out to save her life" , "She turned up HIV positive"

Prove to be in the result or end.

Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery.

Result or end. Synonym: come out.

Come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons.

Bring forth,. Synonym: bear. "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"

Put out or expel from a place. Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, eject, exclude, turf out.

Come and gather for a public event.

Outfit or equip, as with accessories.

10.

Turn outward. Synonyms: rotate, splay, spread out. "Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

11.

Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch. Synonyms: cut, switch off, turn off. "Cut the engine" , "Turn out the lights"

12.

Get up and out of bed. Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, uprise. "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"

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"Turn out" Quotes from Famous Books

... sir," cried he, quickly. "If you should turn out to be an Austro-English spy; if these tidings be of a character to lead my troops into danger; if, in reliance on you, I should be led to compromise the honor and safety of a French army—your life, were it worth ten thousand times over your own value of it, would be a sorry recompense. ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various

... his own ideal of the figure he should make in it to the public. The thought of this was so petrifying that even Louise could not at once find words for it, and they were both silent, as people sometimes are, when a calamity has befallen them, in the hope that if they do not speak it will turn out ...

— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells

... when I was aboard the Laurel, before I picked you up. I shall be able to tell better when we come off the harbour, for then I think I should be sure to know the place again. It will be strange if it should turn out that I am right in my idea, and if so, I would advise you to make inquiries, and learn if any of the families on shore about that time lost a little boy in the way you were lost. Maybe, as the newspapers say, you will hear of something to your advantage; and if you don't, why you won't ...

— Charley Laurel - A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land • W. H. G. Kingston

... I ever had ag'inst John. He was as grand a man as ever was, but he did set everything by such truck. Don't turn out the old things, I say, no more'n the old folks; but when it comes to makin' a woman stan' quiddlin' round doin' work back side foremost, that ...

— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown

... I'm back in the regiment. We must buck up, that's all! I don't like to bother you about it, but I think you'd see things differently if we had a kid. I do really. I've seen heaps of scratch marriages turn out jolly well—when the kids began ...

— The Dark Tower • Phyllis Bottome

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