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/rɪtˈərnɪŋ/ /ritˈərnɪŋ/ Listen  verb Return v. t. 1.To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. "Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye." 2.To repay; as, to return borrowed money. 3.To give in requital or recompense; to requite. "The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head." 4.To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks. 5.To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. "If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am." 6.To report, or bring back and make known. "And all the people answered together,... and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord." 7.To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election. 8.Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. (Eng.) 9.To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ. 10.To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. "Instead of a ship, he should levy money, and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use." 11.(Tennis) To bat (the ball) back over the net. 12.(Card Playing) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. To return a lead (Card Playing), to lead the same suit led by one's partner. Synonyms: To restore; requite; repay; recompense; render; remit; report.
Return v. i. (past & past part. returned; pres. part. returning) 1.To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." "On their embattled ranks the waves return." "If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom." "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." 2.To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. "With the year Seasons return; but not me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn." 3.To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. "He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned." 4.To revert; to pass back into possession. "And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David." 5.To go back in thought, narration, or argument. "But to return to my story."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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