right-about

NOUN

turn

Synonyms

STRONGEST

angle change corner curve departure direction reversal round shift spin spiral swing trend twist wind

STRONG

about-face bend bias bow branch circle circuit circulation circumvolution cycle detour deviation drift flection flexure fork gyration gyre heading hook pirouette pivot quirk retroversion reverse reversion roll rotation tack tendency turnabout turning twisting wheel whirl winding yaw

WEAK

changeabout

Antonyms

WEAK

failure inability miss stagnation

Example Sentences

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Now's your time to turn over a new leaf, and turn all the angles, corners and right-about faces needed.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

When Louis Philippe was sent to the right-about, the mean bourgeois politician went to the right-about too, and his fortune with him.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus

That object achieved, he proposed to turn his visitors to the right-about and send them home.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

"Those brave men, who, returning from war, wheeled suddenly to the right-about towards Industry, charged as for an onset, and without difficulty carried every position."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

I am enabled to send a rascal to the right-about.

From Captain Dieppe by Hope, Anthony

right-about

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