Synonyms and Antonyms for u-turn
1. u-turn (n.)
complete reversal of direction of travel
2. turn (v.)
change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense
- swerve
- pronate
- about-face
- move
- swing around
- twist
- swing about
- bend
- spread out
- pivot
- corner
- turn off
- port
- turn on a dime
- sheer
- cut
- tump over
- spiral
- slew
- trend
- flip over
- circumvolve
- toss
- divert
- deviate
- swivel
- roll over
- avert
- turn over
- tip over
- deflect
- splay
- caracole
- gee
- coil
- overturn
- slue
- rotate
- veer
- turn away
- roll
- curve
- flip
- turn around
- face
- gyrate
- corkscrew
- turn out
3. turn (v.)
undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- ignite
- thicken
- clot
- heat up
- ionize
- go
- slow down
- open up
- black out
- ionise
- ossify
- better
- flourish
- homogenize
- precipitate
- cool
- prosper
- esterify
- get
- wake
- calm down
- raiment
- break
- cloud over
- acetify
- fall
- homogenise
- overgrow
- cash in one's chips
- awaken
- drop dead
- fly high
- curdle
- conceive
- snuff it
- explode
- erupt
- die
- pop off
- carnify
- cross-fertilise
- decease
- work
- garment
- reduce
- freeze
- combust
- catalyze
- pass
- close
- secularize
- clothe
- get worse
- get into
- worsen
- tense up
- exit
- lose weight
- integrate
- come to
- thrive
- thin
- shut
- perish
- fade out
- wake up
- burn
- fade away
- acidify
- zonk out
- emulsify
- expire
- simmer down
- denitrify
- decompress
- burst forth
- change
- settle down
- secularise
- choke
- disengage
- concentrate
- alkalify
- change state
- croak
- give-up the ghost
- tangle with
- unwind
- come alive
- garb
- Frenchify
- take fire
- cool off
- resuscitate
- basify
- open
- pass out
- decline
- become
- fluctuate
- buy the farm
- revive
- slim down
- calm
- improve
- tog
- boil
- thrombose
- slenderize
- catalyse
- hot up
- relax
- coke
- pass away
- heat
- tense
- gain
- sorb
- habilitate
- emancipate
- carbonize
- chill
- solvate
- put on
- meliorate
- sour
- empty
- dissolve
- slim
- catch fire
- equilibrate
- kick the bucket
- ameliorate
- take up
- carburise
- dress
- loosen up
- alkalise
- fill
- calcify
- conk
- alkalize
- inspissate
- enclothe
- be born
- chill out
- ferment
- conflagrate
- unbend
- cool down
- react
- relapse
- discharge
- coagulate
- cross-fertilize
- grow
- break loose
- carbonise
- chondrify
- arouse
- emaciate
- melt off
- fill up
- fit out
- liquefy
- carburize
- waken
- clabber
- etherify
- apparel
- awake
- cool it
- liberate
- citrate
5. turn (v.)
cause to move around or rotate
6. turn (v.)
change to the contrary
- undo
- switch over
- right
- rectify
- commute
- retrovert
- turn the tables
- permute
- commutate
- interchange
- alternate
- turn the tide
- desecrate
- desynchronize
- deconsecrate
- flip-flop
- falsify
- turn back
- return
- exchange
- transpose
- metamorphose
- tack
- transmogrify
- transfigure
- change by reversal
- change
- desynchronise
- reverse
- unhallow
- revert
- flip
- correct
- switch
- regress
7. turn (n.)
the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
8. turn (n.)
a circular segment of a curve
9. turn (v.)
pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
10. turn (v.)
pass to the other side of
