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TO TURN AGAINST

Definition: TO TURN AGAINST

TO TURN AGAINST

1. (a) To direct against; as, to turn one's arguments against himself. (b) To make unfavorable or hostile to; as, to turn one's friends against him.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: TO TURN AGAINST

Etymologies containing "TO TURN AGAINST": Antistrophe ♦ Controversy. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: TO TURN AGAINST

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Romania	Seduced by Ceausescu's "independent" foreign policy, Western leaders were slow to turn against a regime that, by the late 1970s, had become increasingly harsh, arbitrary, and capricious. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: TO TURN AGAINST

Language		Translations for "TO TURN AGAINST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		szembefordul (to wheel about, to wheel round, turn against). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay urntay againstay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO TURN AGAINST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: outstarting.
	-3 letters: antagonist, guttations, orangutans, outstaring, outstating, saturating, saturation, stagnation, tarnations.
	-4 letters: agitators, agnations, antitrust, argonauts, astronaut, attorning, gustation, guttation, natations, nonartist, nutations, orangutan, outrating, strunting, strutting, tarnation, tonsuring, truanting, unstating.
	-5 letters: agitator, agnation, anginous, annattos, antirust, antistat, argonaut, arnattos, arousing, attaints, attuning, granitas, grunions, guaranis, ignorant, insurant, intrants, natation, naturist, nonsugar, notating, notturni.
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Alternative Orthography: TO TURN AGAINST

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 54 55 52 4E 41 47 41 49 4E 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01010101 01010010 01001110 00100000 01000001 01000111 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#84 &#85 &#82 &#78 &#32 &#65 &#71 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0054 0055 0052 004E 0041 0047 0041 0049 004E 0053 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449254555248235413543485354

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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