turn over a new leaf

verb

Roget 950: repent, be sorry for; be penitent etc. adj.; rue; regret etc. 833; think better of; recant etc. 607; knock under etc. (submit) 725; plead guilty; sing miserere [Lat.], sing de profundis [Lat.]; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess &c., (disclose) 529; humble oneself; beg pardon etc. (apologize) 952; turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes &c., (do penance) 952; learn by experience.    ... show more

Roget 658: improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.    advance etc. (progress) 282; ascend etc. 305; increase etc. 35; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover etc. 660.    be better etc. adj., be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.    render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate; correct; decrassify^†.    improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.    promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring on; foster etc. 707; invigorate etc. (strengthen) 159.    touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair etc. (restore) 660; put in order etc. (arrange) 60.    review, revise; make corrections, make improvements etc. n.; doctor etc. (remedy) 662; purify, etc. 652.    relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.    reform, remodel, reorganize; new model.    view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober.    palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil etc. 36.    ... show more

Roget 140: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert^†; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.    work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume^†; metamorphose, ring the changes.    innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf.    recast etc. 146; reverse etc. 218; disturb etc. 61; convert into etc. 144.    ... show more

Roget 607: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from etc. (relinquish) 624; waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.    apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind etc. (abrogate) 756; recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish [U.S.], crawl [U.S.].    draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf etc. (repent) 950.    trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux [Fr.]; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: accommodate, acculturate, adapt, adjust, advance, alter, ameliorate, amend, better, boost, break up, bring forward, change, civilize, convert, deform, denature, diversify, edify, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fatten, favor, fit, forward, foster, go straight, improve, improve upon, lard, lift, make an improvement, meliorate, mend, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, new-model, nurture, overthrow, promote, qualify, raise, re-create, re-form, realign, rebuild, reclaim, reconstruct, redeem, redesign, refashion, refine upon, refit, reform, regenerate, remake, remodel, renew, reshape, restore self-respect, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, set straight, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, socialize, straighten out, subvert, transfigure, transform, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, upgrade, uplift, vary, work a change, worsen ... show more.

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