Return

/ɹɪˈtɜːn/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
2. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
3. (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
6. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
7. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
8. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

Example Sentences

Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

“I came through and I shall return,” General MacArthur declared when he spoke at Terowie of the beleagured Philippines.

As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.

To return to my story[…]

Winter returns every year.

‘I suppose here is none woll be glad to returne – and as for me,’ seyde Sir Cador, ‘I had lever dye this day that onys to turne my bak.’

Whan Kyng Marke harde hym sey that worde, he returned his horse and abode by hym.

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• returne

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