Betekenis van returning In het Nederlands

• 0 present participle of return

• 1 to come or go back to a previous place:

  • Odysseus returned home/returned to his home after many years of travelling.

  • She left South Africa at the age of 15 and has never returned.

  • [ + to infinitive ] David returned (from work) to find his house had burned down.

  • Within a week, the situation had returned to normal.

  • Gandhi urged Indians to return to spinning their own yarn.

  • Every five minutes, he returned to the same subject.

• 2 to give, do, or get something after something similar has been given or done to you:

  • to return an invitation/greeting

  • I returned his stare.

  • I gave her a ride when her car broke down and now she is returning the favour (= doing something to help me in exchange).

  • The terrorists started shooting and the police returned fire (= started shooting back).

  • His representatives did not return a request for comment.

  • She hadn't returned their earlier queries because, she said, she had already explained herself clearly.

  • My investments return a high rate of interest.

• 3 to send, take, give, put, etc. something back to where it came from:

  • The new TV broke so they returned it to the shop.

  • He returned two books he had borrowed from me in 2003.

  • She carefully returned the book to its place on the shelf.

• 4 to happen again:

  • You must go to the doctor if the pain returns.

• 5 to decide and say if you think someone is guilty or not guilty, or what punishment the person will be given in a court of law:

  • The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

  • It was expected that he would be returned as premier.