Unscramble returning

Definition of returning

adjective:

• tending to return to an earlier state. Synonyms: reverting.
• tending to be turned back. Synonyms: reversive.

verb:

• 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". Synonyms: return.
• give back; "render money". Synonyms: render, return.
• go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules". Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, revert, turn back.
• go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his". Synonyms: come back, hark back, recall, return.
• bring back to the point of departure. Synonyms: bring back, return, take back.
• return in kind; "return a compliment", "return her love". Synonyms: return.
• make a return; "return a kickback". Synonyms: return.
• answer back. Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return, riposte.
• be restored; "Her old vigor returned". Synonyms: come back, return.
• pay back; "Please refund me my money". Synonyms: give back, refund, repay, return.
• pass down; "render a verdict", "deliver a judgment". Synonyms: deliver, render, return.
• elect again. Synonyms: reelect, return.
• be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister", "The land returned to the family", "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead". Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass, return.
• return to a previous position; in mathematics; "The point returned to the interior of the figure". Synonyms: return.
• give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk", "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn", "The estate renders some revenue for the family". Synonyms: generate, give, render, return, yield.
• submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority; "submit a bill to a legislative body". Synonyms: return.

Related words

backtrack, boomerang, bounce, fall, home, lapse, light, recidivate, recover, recuperate, recur, redound, regress, reimburse, relapse, resile, restitute, restore, resubmit, resurrect, retrace, retrogress, return, revisit, rise, trace, uprise.

Rhymes with

burning, churning, discerning, learning, turning, yearning.