turned in
turned in is the simple past and past participle of turn in.
Meaning of turn in
Verb
turn in (third-person singular simple present turns in, present participle turning in, simple past and past participle turned in)
- To submit something; to give.
- He turned in his paperwork to the main office.
- To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
- The thief finally turned himself in at the police station.
- Synonyms:
- capitulate, submit, relinquish, give up, abandon, bend, cave in, cede, deplore, fall in line
- To go to bed; to retire to bed.
- I'm tired, so I think I'll turn in early tonight.
- To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
- At that point Leicester were playing with drive and ambition but they were undone by two goals in three minutes. First, Vieira turned in a rebound after the defender Souleymane Bamba had blocked David Silva's shot on the line.2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2025
- To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
Questions about turned in
- What is turned in the simple past and past participle of?
- Turned in is the simple past and past participle of turn in.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: turned in (page history and authors); turn in (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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