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left turned

left turned is the simple past and past participle of left turn.

Meaning of left turn

Verb

left turn (third-person singular simple present left turns, present participle left turning, simple past and past participle left turned)

  1. (intransitive) To turn ninety degrees to one's left, especially in response to a military command while marching.
    • Let them but remember Lewis the eleventh, who to a Clarke of the Exchequer, that came to be Lord Treaſurer, and had (for his device) repreſented himſelfe ſitting upon fortunes wheele: told him, hee might doe well to faſten it with a good ſtrong nayle, left turning about it, it might bring him...[1641, Ben[jamin] Johnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Timber: Or, Discoveries; Made vpon Men and Matter: […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 108–109

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Questions about left turned

What is left turned the simple past and past participle of?
Left turned is the simple past and past participle of left turn.

Words near left turned in the dictionary

  1. left to chance
  2. left to right
  3. left to the imagination
  4. left total
  5. left turn
  6. left turned
  7. left turning
  8. left turns
  9. left ventricle
  10. left ventricles
  11. left ventricular ejection time

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