Definition of return

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Return (v. t.) 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..

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Reanswer :: Reanswer (v. t. & i.) To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
Rotation :: Rotation (n.) Any return or succesion in a series.
Home-coming :: Home-coming (n.) Return home.
Pennyworth :: Pennyworth (n.) Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain.
Counterstroke :: Counterstroke (n.) A stroke or blow in return.
Revenue :: Revenue (n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..
Gratuity :: Gratuity (n.) Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment..
Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
Return :: Return (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again..
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..
Loco :: Loco (adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
Heal :: Heal (v. i.) To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over..
Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved..
Recourse :: Recourse (v. i.) To return; to recur.
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..
Predict :: Predict (v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet..
Recur :: Recur (v. i.) To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation..
Retaliate :: Retaliate (v. t.) To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense..
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