Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to return
Participle: returned
Gerund: returning
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | return |
| you | return |
| he;she;it | returns |
| we | return |
| you | return |
| they | return |
Perfect
| I | have returned |
| you | have returned |
| he;she;it | has returned |
| we | have returned |
| you | have returned |
| they | have returned |
Past
| I | returned |
| you | returned |
| he;she;it | returned |
| we | returned |
| you | returned |
| they | returned |
Pluperfect
| I | had returned |
| you | had returned |
| he;she;it | had returned |
| we | had returned |
| you | had returned |
| they | had returned |
Future
| I | will return |
| you | will return |
| he;she;it | will return |
| we | will return |
| you | will return |
| they | will return |
Future Perfect
| I | will have returned |
| you | will have returned |
| he;she;it | will have returned |
| we | will have returned |
| you | will have returned |
| they | will have returned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | return |
| you | return |
| he;she;it | return |
| we | return |
| you | return |
| they | return |
Perfect
| I | have returned |
| you | have returned |
| he;she;it | have returned |
| we | have returned |
| you | have returned |
| they | have returned |
Imperfect
| I | returned |
| you | returned |
| he;she;it | returned |
| we | returned |
| you | returned |
| they | returned |
Pluperfect
| I | had returned |
| you | had returned |
| he;she;it | had returned |
| we | had returned |
| you | had returned |
| they | had returned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would return |
| you | would return |
| he;she;it | would return |
| we | would return |
| you | would return |
| they | would return |
Perfect
| I | would have returned |
| you | would have returned |
| he;she;it | would have returned |
| we | would have returned |
| you | would have returned |
| they | would have returned |
Imperative
| you | return |
| we | Let's return |
| you | return |
Verbs conjugated like 'return'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'return'
beturn,
deturn,
re-turn,
returf,
returne,
deturb,
inturn,
rebury,
rechurn,
recur,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to give written or spoken response
- answer, answer back, counter, react, rejoin, reply, respond, retort
- to give something back to its original holder or owner
- give back, reinstate, render, restore, revest, surrender
- react
- repeat, reconsider, recrudesce, recur, reenter, recover, revert, reverberate
- replace
- reinstate, reestablish, restitute, restore, requite, render, refund
- reply
- retort, respond, answer
Antonyms
- receive temporarily
- borrow, lend
- to take something that does not belong to one
- buy, earn, purchase, receive, steal
- to actively and intentionally gain possession or control
- give, take
- to give something back to its original holder or owner
- take
- to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it
- buy, lend, take, borrow
- replace
- remove, move, shift, shuffle
- reply
- ask, question, plead, demand
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1366, "to come back," from O.Fr.
retorner "turn back, return," from
re- "back" +
torner "to turn" (see turn). Transitive sense is attested from c.1420. The noun is first attested c.1390, "act of coming back;" in the tennis sense, it is from 1886. Meaning "official report of election results" is attested from 1459. Meaning "a yield, a profit" is recorded from 1626.
Many happy returns of the day was used by Addison, 1716.
2. From Middle English returnen, retornen, from Anglo-Norman returner, from Old French retourner, retorner, from Medieval Latin retornare (“to turn back”), from re- + tornare (“to turn”). By surface analysis, re- + turn. Compare beturn. Displaced native Old English eftċierran, literally "eft-char". See: Middle English '
returnen', Anglo-Norman '
returner', Old French '
retourner'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] desperate, we threw off all disguise; openly speculated upon where we should be this time to-morrow, this time next day, and so forth; and entrusted a vast number of messages to those who intended returning to town that night, which were to be delivered at home and elsewhere without fail, within the very shortest possible space of time after the arrival of the railway train at Euston Square. And [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and quiet, there was but little motion; so that before the dinner was half over, even those passengers who were most distrustful of themselves plucked up amazingly; and those who in the morning had returned to the universal question, ‘Are you a good sailor ? ’ a very decided negative, now either parried the inquiry with the evasive reply, ‘Oh ! I suppose I 'm no worse than anybody else; ’ or, reckless [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The boat soon shoved off, with a lantern and sundry blue lights on board; and in less than an hour returned; the officer in command bringing with him a tolerably tall young tree, which he had plucked up by the roots, to satisfy certain distrustful passengers whose minds misgave them that they were to be [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] away with me a most pleasant impression of the town and its inhabitants, and have preserved it to this hour. Nor was it without regret that I came home, without having found an opportunity of returning thither, and once more shaking hands with the friends I made that day.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I looked at him doubtfully, and returned, ‘No; I would rather have it in this private room. I like it very much. ’
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] full-length view; then, getting up, he set her on his broad shoulder, and began capering and dancing with her, while Mas’r George snapped at her with his pocket-handkerchief, and Mose and Pete, now returned again, roared after her like bears, till Aunt Chloe declared that they “ fairly took her head off ” with their noise. As, according to her own statement, this surgical operation was a matter of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ She did, hey ? ” said Mr. Shelby, returning to his paper, which he seemed for a few moments quite intent upon, not perceiving that he was holding it bottom upwards. ~~~ “ It will have to come out, ” said he, mentally; “ as well now as ever. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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I happened to arrive at the first factory just as the dinner hour was over, and the girls were returning to their work; indeed the stairs of the mill were thronged with them as I ascended. They were all well dressed, but not to my thinking above their condition; for I like to see the humbler classes [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I returned at night by the same railroad and in the same kind of car. One of the passengers being exceedingly anxious to expound at great length to my companion (not to me, of course ) the true principles on [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer. Haley therefore slowly and discontentedly returned to the little tavern, to ponder further what was to be done. The woman opened to him the door of a little parlor, covered with a rag carpet, where stood a table with a very shining black oil-cloth, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)