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get turned around

get turned around verb: to become lost; to lose one's way.

Verb

get turned around (third-person singular simple present gets turned around, present participle getting turned around, simple past got turned around, past participle (UK) got turned around or (US) gotten turned around)

  1. To become lost; to lose one's way.
    • I didn’t do well in cities and remembered why as I crawled up roads at snail’s pace and got turned around by one-way streets.2015 September 15, Victoria Blisse, Good Manors, Lincoln, England: Totally Entwined Group, →ISBN, page 197

Forms of get turned around

third-person singular presentgets turned around
present participlegetting turned around
pastgot turned around
past participle UKgot turned around
past participle USgotten turned around

Questions about get turned around

What does get turned around mean?
Get turned around means to become lost; to lose one's way.
What part of speech is get turned around?
Get turned around is a verb.
What is the past tense of get turned around?
The past tense of get turned around is got turned around.

Words near get turned around in the dictionary

  1. get to the bottom of
  2. get to the fireworks factory
  3. get to the point
  4. get to work
  5. get together
  6. get turned around
  7. get under it
  8. get under someone's goat
  9. get under someone's skin
  10. get underneath someone's skin
  11. get up

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