turned
- adjective
- /tɜrnd/
- The milk has turned sour.
Let's see how bananas turned from this to this.
- Let's see how bananas turned from this to this.
Examples
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I tasted the milk and realized it had turned overnight.
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Don’t drink that juice; it has already turned.
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The cheese smelled strange because it was turned.
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I can't drink this juice; it's turned bad.
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I opened the refrigerator and found that the milk had turned and was no longer safe to drink.
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After a few days in the pantry, the orange juice had turned and developed an unpleasant taste.
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The leftover pasta had turned and emitted a foul odor when I went to eat it.
Synonyms
Having gone bad and tasting unpleasant
To become spoiled and no longer safe to eat or use
Food that is no longer safe to eat because it has gone bad
No longer fresh and unpleasant to eat
Turned unpleasant, like milk that went bad or a friendship that ended
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A person who used to break rules but now stops others from breaking them, for example protecting animals
How Spoiled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word turned used to describe food comes from the common verb turn, which means 'to change' or 'move into a different state'. So, when milk or cheese has 'turned' it has 'changed' from fresh to bad.