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got turned around

got turned around is the simple past of get turned around.

got turned around is the past participle of get turned around.

Meaning of get turned around

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

Questions about got turned around

What is got turned around the simple past of?
Got turned around is the simple past of get turned around.

Words near got turned around in the dictionary

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

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