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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-turn into.ogg [Australia] Forms: turns into [present, singular, third-person], turning into [participle, present], turned into [participle, past], turned into [past]
Etymology: turn + into Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} turn into (third-person singular simple present turns into, present participle turning into, simple past and past participle turned into)
  1. (intransitive) To become. Tags: intransitive Translations (intransitive: become): convertir-se (Catalan), esdevenir (Catalan), 成為 /成为 (english: sing⁴ wai⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 變得 /变得 (biànde) (Chinese Mandarin), 變成 /变成 (biànchéng) (Chinese Mandarin), forvandle sig til (Danish), overgaan (Dutch), muuttua (Finnish), devenir (French), se transformer en (French), sich wandeln in (German), sich verwandeln in (German), werden (German), γίνομαι (gínomai) (Greek), válik (Hungarian), átváltozik (Hungarian), változik (Hungarian), 변하다 (byeonhada) (Korean), ugauha (Maore Comorian), forvandle seg til (Norwegian), zmieniać się w [imperfective] (Polish), zmienić się w [perfective] (Polish), virar (Portuguese), tornar-se (Portuguese), превраща́ться (prevraščátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), преврати́ться (prevratítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), convertirse en (Spanish), devenir en (Spanish), tornarse en (Spanish), klutk- (Tocharian B), dönmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-turn_into-en-verb-en:become Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English terms with collocations Synonyms: turn to, convert, change, transform, get [intransitive], turn, go, come, fall, grow, wax, make, make into Synonyms (intransitive: become): become Disambiguation of 'intransitive: become': 73 26 2 Disambiguation of 'intransitive: become': 73 26 2
  2. (transitive) To cause (something or someone) to become. Tags: transitive Synonyms: turn to, convert, change, transform, make [transitive], make into
    Sense id: en-turn_into-en-verb-en:cause_to_become Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "into", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maore Comorian translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Tocharian B translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 58 4 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "into": 30 61 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 31 60 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 35 61 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 65 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 24 68 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 24 68 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 24 68 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 18 78 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 25 65 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 24 68 8 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 25 65 10 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 24 68 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 25 65 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 24 68 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 24 68 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 24 67 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Maore Comorian translations: 22 73 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 24 68 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 33 58 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 34 59 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 24 69 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 23 71 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Tocharian B translations: 8 91 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 24 68 8
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, into.
    Sense id: en-turn_into-en-verb-drN3uPUp
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: make into Synonyms (transitive: cause to become): make Derived forms: you can't turn a hoe into a housewife Related terms: turn, turn in, turn into a pumpkin Translations (transitive: cause to become): դարձնել (darjnel) (Armenian), վերածել (veracel) (Armenian), zu ... machen (German), κάνω (káno) (Greek), μεταμορφώνω (metamorfóno) (Greek), átváltozat (Hungarian), változtat (Hungarian), zmieniać w [imperfective] (Polish), zmienić w [perfective] (Polish), tornar (Portuguese), превраща́ть (prevraščátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), преврати́ть (prevratítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), convertir en (Spanish), transformar en (Spanish), transmutar en (Spanish), tornar en (Spanish), çevirmek (Turkish), döndürmek (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'transitive: cause to become': 52 46 2 Disambiguation of 'transitive: cause to become': 52 46 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "\"I am the nursery magic Fairy,\" she said. \"I take care of all the playthings that the children have loved. When they are old and worn out and the children don't need them any more, then I come and take them away with me and turn them into Real.\"",
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          "text": "Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.",
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        "(transitive) To cause (something or someone) to become."
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