turn in

present singular third person turns in · participle present turning in · participle past turned in · past turned in

1. idiomatictransitiveTo submit something; to give.

   The actors turned in a formulaic performance.

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   He turned in his paperwork to the main office.

   Synonyms: hand in, accord, add, assign, award, bestow, bequeath, confer

2. idiomatictransitiveTo 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.

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   My nosy next-door neighbor turned me in for building my garage without a permit.

   Synonyms: capitulate, submit, relinquish, give up, abandon, bend, capitulate, cave in

3. idiomaticintransitiveTo go to bed; to retire to bed.

   I'm tired, so I think I'll turn in early tonight.

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   "Landlord," said I, "tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him. But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me. It's dangerous. Besides, I aint insured." This being told to Queequeg, he at once complied, and again politely motioned me to get into bed—rolling over to one side as much as to say—I wont touch a leg of ye. "Good night, landlord," said I, "you may go." I turned in, and never slept better in my life.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 27

   Synonyms: hit the sack, retire, couch a hogshead, go to bed, go to sleep, bed down, hit the hay, hit the sack

4. ball gamesTo 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

5. businessTo reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.