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turned the other way

turned the other way is the simple past and past participle of turn the other way.

Meaning of turn the other way

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of look the other way.

Questions about turned the other way

What is turned the other way the simple past and past participle of?
Turned the other way is the simple past and past participle of turn the other way.

Words near turned the other way in the dictionary

  1. turned the dial
  2. turned the frown upside down
  3. turned the knife
  4. turned the knife in the wound
  5. turned the other cheek
  6. turned the other way
  7. turned the page
  8. turned the scale
  9. turned the screw
  10. turned the screws
  11. turned the tables

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turned the other way (page history and authors); turn the other way (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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