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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inturn

1590s, "turning in of the toes" (especially in dancing), from in + turn.

Usage examples of "inturn".

His eyes were glazed, inturned, as if he were seeing something that was not there.

A finger pulled the pink knitted helmet down so that a single green eye peered from the woollen slot and read the illuminated digits on the inturned wrist chronograph: 0216.

And this strength, this independence, this self-reliance, was not just a trait in his character, it was not just inturned and effective only upon himself.

Rabbit notices how his mouth stays open after he laughs, the little inturned rows of teeth waiting a moment while his eyebrows go up and down expectantly.

Faster and faster they went, like two kids seeing who could say the Pledge of Allegiance faster, as all around them the silence began to sing with inturned power, the air shimmered and rang with force like a gong ringing backward, soft at first, then louder, though without sound, without breaking that silence—a hiss, a murmur, an outcry of something about to happen, a shout of inner voices, a silent thunderclap.

One man lunged at him, missing, while the other was slow inturning, with Dash past him before he could be intercepted.

The cause of his inturning was the decampment of the Wahlig of el Aswad.