Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Turned in.
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- adjective
turned inwards
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Examples
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One of the boys was raging to the point they had to have him inturned for psychological testing.
Review: ‘Must Read After My Death’ | We Are Movie Geeks 2009
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In my self-inturned little world I've only really come to be aware of this meme by way of the countermeme - the rising trend on Twitter, for example, of the tag #welovethenhs.
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Moreover, it was not only in the last-named that familiar features had reappeared, as invisible till then in her face as the inturned parts of a seed-pod, the eventual opening out of which would never be suspected.
Time Regained 2003
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Then she noticed he was a cripple with inturned feet.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Inman followed the woman, noting that she stepped with inturned toes, a style of walking often said to be favored by Indians, though Inman had known many a Cherokee, Swimmer among them, who walked splay-footed as mergansers.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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His face seemed to have grown longer, too, more cadaverous; his eye had an absent, inturned expression.
The Way Home 2003
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His eyes were glazed, inturned, as if he were seeing something that was not there.
Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002
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His eyes were glazed, inturned, as if he were seeing something that was not there.
Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002
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His eyes were glazed, inturned, as if he were seeing something that was not there.
Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002
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Inman followed the woman, noting that she stepped with inturned toes, a style of walking often said to be favored by Indians, though Inman had known many a Cherokee, Swimmer among them, who walked splay-footed as mergansers.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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