turn in

To give work, documents, or an item to the person or organization that should receive it.

• Please turn in your homework.
• She turned in her report before the deadline.
• Have you turned your keys in to reception?

How to use it: turn something in to someone/something (Turn your form in to the office by Friday.)

Similar words: hand in, submit

Common phrases: turn in homework, turn in something, turn in a report

To report or hand someone to the police, or give yourself up to them.

• She turned him in to the police.
• The driver turned himself in the next morning.
• Would you turn in a friend who had committed a serious crime?

How to use it: turn someone in to someone (His neighbor turned him in to the police.); turn oneself in (She turned herself in after seeing the news.)

Similar words: report, hand over, give up

Common phrases: turn in someone, turn in a suspect

To go to bed to sleep.

• I’m tired; I’ll turn in.
• We turned in early because we had a long journey ahead.
• What time did you turn in last night?

Similar words: go to bed, retire

Opposites: get up

Common phrases: turn in early, turn in late, turn in for tonight

In football, to turn your body and send the ball into the goal.

• He turned in the cross.
• The striker turned the ball in from close range.
• She turned in a pass to give her team the lead.

How to use it: turn in something (The striker turned in a low cross from the right.)

Similar words: score, convert

Common phrases: turn in a cross, turn in the ball

To fold loose thread ends back into woven cloth so they stay hidden and do not come loose.

• Turn in the loose threads.
• She turned in each end as she wove.
• Have you turned in the threads along this edge?

How to use it: turn something in (Turn the loose ends in before finishing the cloth.)

Similar words: tuck in

Common phrases: turn in ends, turn in threads