If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and serve him faithfully,
afflictions shall turn to our advantage.
Wake.
4. To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be
directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as,
to turn from the road.
Turn from thy fierce wrath.
Ex. xxxii. 12.
Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways.
Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
The understanding turns inward on itself, and reflects on its own
operations.
Locke.
5. To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also,
to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone;
water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.