0 present participle of return --
2 to give, do, or get something after something similar has been given or done to you: --
My investments return a high rate of interest.
She hadn't returned their earlier queries because, she said, she had already explained herself clearly.
His representatives did not return a request for comment.
The terrorists started shooting and the police returned fire (= started shooting back).
I gave her a ride when her car broke down and now she is returning the favour (= doing something to help me in exchange).
I returned his stare.
to return an invitation/greeting
3 to send, take, give, put, etc. something back to where it came from: --
4 to happen again: --
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: --
Upon returning to the stationary frame of reference, these cells are precisely the viscous vortices oscillating to and fro high above the ripples.
In other words, holding pre-existing individual and environmental attributes constant, merely going to the polls increases one's chance of returning.
Sometimes they would leave quite early in the morning to meet returning migrants.
The scene cuts from his bedside to what is evidently a flashback - some kind of traumatic memory is returning to his (altered) consciousness.
These workers have few workplace protections and the option of returning to public assistance is unavailable if they have exhausted their lifetime cap.
This represents an independent evolution of spectral diversity in response to selection after returning to a diurnal lifestyle.
For each of the six trials, children were asked to predict the returning character's false belief.
Older physicians, in contrast, probably looked forward to returning to their established practices.
