turned over

verb

past tense of turn over
1
as in relinquished
to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress reluctantly turned the ship over to the first mate while he went below to try to stop the leak

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2
as in left
to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another turned the evidence over to the police

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3
as in turned turtle
to turn on one's side or upside down don't try to tell me the bucket turned over all by itself

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4
as in flipped
to change the position of (an object) so that the opposite side or end is showing would you mind turning the picture over so I can see if the backing needs to be replaced

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Recent Examples of turned over The group said the man’s daughter provided documents confirming his death, which have been turned over to the district attorney. — Lekan Oyekanmi, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 The digital records of Masterson’s emails that WSU turned over were heavily redacted. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026 Police in Norfolk confirmed that the man has died and that their local investigation was turned over to the Huron County Sheriff's Office. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Dozens of people who were turned over to ICE this year had their criminal charges dropped, or, like Pilar and Leya, were never charged in the first place. — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2026 But the board has turned over almost entirely to new members in the last two years, four of whom joined just this year. — Adam B. Vary, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026 If there is any money left over it is turned over to the estate. — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 As part of the Herald’s records request, the county turned over a competing courthouse proposal by another Miami developer, Moishe Mana. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026 He was later sentenced in federal court and served time in federal custody before being turned over to local authorities. — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned over
  1. relinquished
  2. handed
  3. overturned
  4. flipped
  5. rendered
  6. transferred
  7. fell
  8. reversed
Verb
  • Panettiere had relinquished custody of Kaya to Klitschko in 2018.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Tate Nagy relinquished punt return duties to Keaton Kubecka Saturday.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
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  • The match against Roma came hours after he was handed a four-game suspension in the Spanish league after being sent off for pulling the hair of an opponent and for protesting against the referee.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • When asked, Beckham handed the bottles to Pierce, who noted three different types of pills in the bottle.
    — Steven Mross, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
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  • In February, the High Court ruled it unlawful and disproportionate, but the Court of Appeal overturned that ruling in June.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Last year, Palestine Action’s co-founder ​Huda Ammori ⁠challenged the ban and the High Court ruled in her favor in February, before the Court of Appeal overturned that decision in June.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of overturned
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  • Worse, the fragmentation of DNA in the ancient samples gives an imperfect record of which of those regulatory switches are to be flipped which way.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The Dodgers swept the Brewers in last year’s NLCS, but with Los Angeles injured and a year older, the script has flipped to this point.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of flipped
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  • The city argued that the changes rendered portions of Jackson’s lawsuit moot because the original restrictions were no longer in effect.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Campus security found the women and rendered emergency medical services before they were transported to a nearby hospital, according to the indictment.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of rendered
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  • Instead of crossing over into the afterlife, Billy, the magically inclined twin, transferred his soul into the body of William Kaplan, a teenager who had just been involved in a fatal car crash.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The Horned Frogs will need Hayward’s pass rushing expertise to harass Baylor junior quarterback DJ Lagway, a former five-star recruit that transferred in from Florida.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of transferred
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  • Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.
    — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
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  • In Texas, Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico has reversed his past support for transgender athletes.
    — Dorian Rhea Debussy, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Oil reversed its losses after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed such a ceasefire, but warned Monday that Moscow must do the same.
    — Sean Conlon,Hugh Leask,Lee Ying Shan,Sarah Min, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026
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“Turned over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20over. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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