What does returning mean?
Returning means present participle and gerund of return.
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/ɹɪˈtɜːnɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of return.
It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.
Use returning when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Returning means present participle and gerund of return.
Common synonyms include regressive, reverting, reversive.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.
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