turn the tide en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) To undergo a change or reversal of a general trend.
Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helped turn the tide of public opinion against the war.
2008 March 21, Owen Bowcott, “The man who captured the human cost of conflict”, in The Guardian:The general who turned the tide at Alamein was not, prior to his arrival in the Middle East, one of the very "top brass"; but he was a soldier, not a detergent manufacturer.
1962 February, “No Talent on the Railways?”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| turned the tide | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| turned the tide | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| turns the tide | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| turning the tide | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Translations (9)
fi kääntää (to make a change) · de das Blatt wenden (to make a change) · nl het tij keren (to make a change) · ru поворачивать ход (to make a change) · is valda straumhvörfum (to make a change) · fi keikauttaa (to make a change) · lv mainīt notikumu gaitu (to make a change) · is snúa í hag (to make a change) · ru переломить ход (to make a change)