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1. Tending to return to an earlier state
   - reverting
    
2. Tending to be turned back
   - reversive

1. Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
   "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
    
2. Give back
   "return money";
   - render
    
3. Go back to a previous state
   "We returned to the old rules";
   - revert, retrovert, regress, turn back
    
4. Go back to something earlier
   "This returns to a previous remark of his";
   - hark back, come back, recall
    
5. Bring back to the point of departure
   - take back, bring back
    
6. Return in kind
   "return a compliment"; "return her love"
    
7. (football) make a return
   "return a kickback"
    
8. Respond in a quick, clever or humorous way
   - retort, come back, repay, riposte, rejoin
    
9. Be restored
   "Her old vigour returned";
   - come back
    
10. Pay back
    - refund, repay, give back
     
11. Pass down
    "return a verdict";
    - render, deliver
     
12. Elect again
    - reelect
     
13. Be inherited by
    "The land returned to the family";
    - fall, pass, devolve
     
14. Give or supply
    "The estate returns some revenue for the family";
    - render, yield, give, generate
     
15. Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
    "Gov. Chris Christie has returned a bill to the New Jersey Assembly on increased gun regulations"

See also: backward, regressive

Type of: answer, bring, carry, change by reversal, change hands, change owners, communicate, convey, create, denote, elect, give, go, locomote, make, move, pass, pass along, pass on, pay, produce, put across, reappear, reciprocate, re-emerge, refer, reply, respond, reverse, submit, take, transport, travel, turn

Encyclopedia: Returning