Definition of return

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Return (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again..

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Restitution :: Restitution (v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..
Concoction :: Concoction (n.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition..
Remeant :: Remeant (a.) Coming back; returning.
Returnable :: Returnable (a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being returned..
Reform :: Reform (v. i.) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform..
Reciprocalness :: Reciprocalness (n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.
Sublimate :: Sublimate (v. t.) To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor..
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) That which reverts or returns; residue.
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Repair :: Repair (v. i.) To return.
Torsional :: Torsional (a.) Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force..
Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food..
Revenge :: Revenge (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer..
Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song..
Redound :: Redound (n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital..
Anniversary :: Anniversary (a.) Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast..
Retribute :: Retribute (v. t.) To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal..
Crossette :: Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow..
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