Meaning of turn into | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To transform into; become.
   idiomatic, intransitive
2. To transform into; cause to become.
   idiomatic, transitive
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, into.

Equivalents

Examples

“The carriage turned into a pumpkin at midnight.”

“"I am the nursery magic Fairy," she said. "I take care of all the playthings that the children have loved. When they are old and worn out and the children don't need them any more, then I come and take them away with me and turn them into Real."”

“Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.”

“I was just turning into my driveway when I got your call.”

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