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turn the boat around

turn the boat around is the alternative form of turn the boat.

Meaning of turn the boat

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To make a major change in behavior, strategy, topic under discussion, etc.
    • "It will take a very special person to turn the boat and effect the required culture change."2014 June 11, Doug Gillon, “Meg Ritchie's long-playing records tell a tale of power and prowess”, in The Herald Scotland, retrieved 22 Aug 2017

Forms of turn the boat around

third-person singular presentturns the boat around
present participleturning the boat around
past participleturned the boat around
pastturned the boat around

Questions about turn the boat around

What is turn the boat around the alternative form of?
Turn the boat around is the alternative form of turn the boat.

Words near turn the boat around in the dictionary

  1. turn stop
  2. turn stops
  3. turn tail
  4. turn the air blue
  5. turn the boat
  6. turn the boat around
  7. turn the clock back
  8. turn the clocks back
  9. turn the cold shoulder on someone
  10. turn the corner
  11. turn the dial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turn the boat around (page history and authors); turn the boat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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