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Returning   /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."





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"Returning" Quotes from Famous Books



... not be their destruction if they turned to the Lord in their calamity. The wider lesson of the means of making chastisement into blessing, and securing a way of escape—namely, by owning the justice of the stroke, and returning to duty—is meant for us all. He who sends the storm watches its effect on us, and will not let His repentant servants be utterly overwhelmed. That is a better use to make of the story than to discuss whether any kind of known Mediterranean fish could swallow a man. If ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren
... establishes himself in the interior of this soul in such a way, that when she returns to herself, it is wholly impossible for her to doubt that she has been in God, and God in her. This truth remains so strongly impressed on her that, even though many years should pass without the condition returning, she can neither forget the favor she received, nor doubt of its reality. If you, nevertheless, ask how it is possible that the soul can see and understand that she has been in God, since during the union she has neither sight nor understanding, I reply that she does not see it then, but ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
... noble, and so rich, he might marry whom he willed. He has no relatives to be angry over it; and he says, if it pleases me, we can buy a place in Scotland, on the very shores of the Gairloch. Think of that, Isabel; think of your exiled Henrietta returning to that. God is too good, and I am ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... as I direct. One can never be too particular about returning books. You have kept it an unconscionable time. You will bring it to the vicarage ...
— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim
... hither. When I was at Auckland, in New Zealand, I went to the theatre to see a troupe of Japanese jugglers. I had seen the identical troupe in London, and "All Right" was amongst them. They were on their way to Honolulu, to star it here before returning to Japan. Charles Mathews, with whom I made the voyage from Melbourne to Sydney, is also advertised to appear, "for a few nights only," at the Royal Hawaiian Theatre.[16] And now here is The Bandman, my fellow-passenger ...
— A Boy's Voyage Round the World • The Son of Samuel Smiles


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