"turn the tide" meaning in English

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      "form": "turns the tide",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "turning the tide",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "turned the tide",
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        "past"
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      "form": "turned the tide",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1962 February, “No Talent on the Railways?”, in Modern Railways, page 74",
          "text": "The general who turned the tide at Alamein was not, prior to his arrival in the Middle East, one of the very \"top brass\"; but he was a soldier, not a detergent manufacturer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 21, Owen Bowcott, “The man who captured the human cost of conflict”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helped turn the tide of public opinion against the war.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To undergo a change or reversal of a general trend."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "undergo",
          "undergo"
        ],
        [
          "change",
          "change"
        ],
        [
          "reversal",
          "reversal"
        ],
        [
          "general",
          "general"
        ],
        [
          "trend",
          "trend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To undergo a change or reversal of a general trend."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to make a change",
          "word": "het tij keren"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to make a change",
          "word": "kääntää"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to make a change",
          "word": "keikauttaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to make a change",
          "word": "das Blatt wenden"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to make a change",
          "word": "valda straumhvörfum"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "english": "turn the tide favorably",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to make a change",
          "word": "snúa í hag"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "to make a change",
          "word": "mainīt notikumu gaitu"
        }
      ]
    }
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "turning the tide",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turned the tide",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turned the tide",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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          "ref": "1962 February, “No Talent on the Railways?”, in Modern Railways, page 74",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 21, Owen Bowcott, “The man who captured the human cost of conflict”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helped turn the tide of public opinion against the war.",
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        }
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        "To undergo a change or reversal of a general trend."
      ],
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          "undergo",
          "undergo"
        ],
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          "change",
          "change"
        ],
        [
          "reversal",
          "reversal"
        ],
        [
          "general",
          "general"
        ],
        [
          "trend",
          "trend"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To undergo a change or reversal of a general trend."
      ],
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to make a change",
      "word": "het tij keren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make a change",
      "word": "kääntää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make a change",
      "word": "keikauttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make a change",
      "word": "das Blatt wenden"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to make a change",
      "word": "valda straumhvörfum"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "turn the tide favorably",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to make a change",
      "word": "snúa í hag"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "to make a change",
      "word": "mainīt notikumu gaitu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "turn the tide"
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