Crossword-Solution: RETURN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Return | v. i. | To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. |
| Return | v. i. | To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. |
| Return | v. i. | To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. |
| Return | v. i. | To revert; to pass back into possession. |
| Return | v. i. | To go back in thought, narration, or argument. |
| Return | v. t. | To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. |
| Return | v. t. | To repay; as, to return borrowed money. |
| Return | v. t. | To give in requital or recompense; to requite. |
| Return | v. t. | To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks. |
| Return | v. t. | To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. |
| Return | v. t. | To report, or bring back and make known. |
| Return | v. t. | To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election. |
| Return | v. t. | Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. |
| 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. |
| Return | v. t. | To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. |
| Return | v. t. | To bat (the ball) back over the net. |
| Return | v. t. | To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. |
| Return | n. | The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary. |
| Return | n. | The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis. |
| Return | n. | That which is returned. |
| Return | n. | A payment; a remittance; a requital. |
| Return | n. | An answer; as, a return to one's question. |
| Return | n. | An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information. |
| Return | n. | The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. |
| Return | n. | The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south. |
| Return | n. | The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. |
| Return | n. | The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. |
| Return | n. | The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. |
| Return | n. | A day in bank. See Return day, below. |
| Return | n. | An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc. |
| Return | n. | The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETURN | anagram | TURNER |
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Sentences with RETURN (5)
Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.
Then he climbed the rocky headlands, Looking o’er the Gitche Gumee, Perched himself upon their summit, Waiting full of mirth and mischief The return of Hiawatha.
With this advantage then To union, and firm Faith, and firm accord, More then can be in Heav’n, we now return To claim our just inheritance of old, Surer to prosper then prosperity Could have assur’d us; and by what best way, Whether of open Warr or covert guile, We now debate; who can advise, may speak.
Having secured a large booty, the Lion on their return from the forest asked the Ass to allot his due portion to each of the three partners in the treaty.
When I was sent of errands, I always took my book with me, and by going one part of my errand quickly, I found time to get a lesson before my return.
Quotes with RETURN (3)
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
I have to return some videotapes
Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They'd make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They'd alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 77 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).