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turn back: turn inside out or upside down

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turn around collapse: get better; "Her performance in school picked up"; cause to get better; "The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"

hark back collapse: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

turn about collapse

go back collapse: belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years"

pack off collapse

turn the tables collapse: cause a complete reversal of the circumstances; "The tables are turned now that the Republicans are in power!"

push back collapse

drive back collapse

sheer off collapse

react collapse: undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"; show a response or a reaction to something; act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to everything I say"

draw back collapse

revert collapse: undergo reversion, as in a mutation; go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"

beat back collapse

thrust back collapse

come back collapse: be restored; "Her old vigor returned"; even the score, in sports

keep off collapse: refrain from entering or walking onto; "keep off the grass"; "stay off the premises"; refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"

gyrate collapse: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

fend off collapse

put about collapse

brush off collapse

send away collapse

drive away collapse

fall back collapse: retreat; fall backwards and down; have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"

backslide collapse

rotate collapse: plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"; perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"; cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"; exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"

avoid collapse: stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"; refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

turn inside out collapse

introvert collapse: (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts; turn inside; "He introverted his feelings"

turn aside collapse

transpose collapse: a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix; change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"; put (a piece of music) into another key; transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality

wince collapse: a reflex response to sudden pain; the facial expression of sudden pain; make a face indicating disgust or dislike; "She winced when she heard his pompous speech"

ward off collapse: avert, turn away, or repel; "Ward off danger"

spurn collapse

head off collapse

beat off collapse

sidestep collapse: a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

turn in collapse: make an entrance by turning from a road; "Turn in after you see the gate"

put back collapse

repel collapse: force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"; cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"; be repellent to; cause aversion in

detour collapse: a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked); travel via a detour

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