redient
rereturn
return
revenant
call-back
bounce
returnable
retour
reenter
put back
come back
nonreturn
circle back
rehabilitate
remeant
revenue
redeliver
backstep
regain
repeat
requite
retransfer
returnal
rekindle
recall
revert
becover
velvet
recapturable
repay
rejoin
retort
in turn
back
reclaim
riposte
recooper
resume
take up
resiliate
give back
like a phoenix from the ashes
replace
restable
evaluate
get over
reanimate
go home
prereturn
regive
harp
head home
revindicate
rehappen
repossess
dwell
recurrence
get back on the horse that bucked one
repurchase
retrotransfer
surrebound
get back
nontoasted
reoccur
render
rise
repass
returning
returned
restitute
returnlessly
idle
reprive
refetch
dead
revest
reflux
send back
reverberate
rerestore
recurring
reattenuate
rearrive
turn back
pay off
refund
revive
win back
redient
revenant
returnable
remeant
recapturable
back
prereturn
nontoasted
returned
idle
dead
recurring
returnlessly
rereturn
return
call-back
retour
nonreturn
revenue
returnal
recall
recurrence
retrotransfer
returning
rereturn
return
bounce
reenter
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circle back
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backstep
regain
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rekindle
revert
becover
velvet
repay
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retort
reclaim
riposte
recooper
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take up
resiliate
give back
replace
restable
evaluate
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reanimate
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head home
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dwell
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repurchase
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adj
verb
- make a return
- answer back
- give back
- pay back
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- go back to a previous state
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- return in kind
- be restored
- pass down
- elect again
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- give or supply
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
noun
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- a coming to or returning home
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- getting something back again
- the act of going back to a prior location
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- a reciprocal group action
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the act of someone appearing again
verb
- To return undelivered.
- (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
- To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- To leave.
- To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- To move rapidly (between).
- To attack unexpectedly.
- To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
- To turn power off and back on; to reset.
noun
- A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Drugs.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- The sack, dismissal.
- Swagger.
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- A bang, boom.
- A talent for leaping.
- A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
verb
- To return (something) to its original condition.
- To restore or repair (a vehicle, building); to make habitable or usable again.
- To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.
- To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.).
- To restore to (a criminal etc.) the necessary training and education to allow for a successful reintegration into society; to retrain.
- To return (someone) to good health after illness, addiction, etc.
- To go through such a process; to recover.
verb
- To retract or take back.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To take a step backwards
- To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
noun
- An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- Flow over a backward-facing step.
- A step backwards
verb
- To happen again; recur.
- To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To refill (a prescription).
- To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
- To echo the words of (a person).
- To repay or refund (an excess received).
- To do or say again (and again).
noun
noun
noun
- a call to return
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- the act of removing an official by petition
verb
verb
- To return to the possession of.
- Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- To convert to Islam.
- To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- To reply (to correspondence, for example).
- To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx² + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- To cause to return to a former condition.
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
noun
- The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
- One who, or that which, reverts.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- A convert to Islam.
verb
- to retract.
- To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
- To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
- To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
- To soften; to mitigate.
noun
- The drug dextromethorphan.
- A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
- Money acquired by gambling.
- Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
- A female chinchilla; a sow.
adj
verb
prep_phrase
- In response; in return.
- One after the other; one at a time; in succession; successively.
- Having a relationship sequentially comparable to one just mentioned; accordingly or similarly, with respect to sequence, precedence, or hierarchy.
- In due order; in proper sequence; in a determined or measured sequence, as a waiting line or queue.
adj
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
postp
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
verb
- To claim something back; to repossess.
- To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
noun
verb
- return to a previous location or condition
- pursue or resume
- adopt
- turn one's interest to
- take up time or space
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- take up and practice as one's own
- occupy or take on
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- accept
- take in, also metaphorically
- take up as if with a sponge
prep_phrase
verb
- To refund; to repay; to pay back
- To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back
- To place again.
- To put in a new or different place.
- To take over the position or role from.
- To take the place of; to be used instead of
- To supply or substitute an equivalent for
- To demolish (a building) and build an updated form of that building in its place.
verb
adj
verb
noun
- a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
- a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
- a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
verb
verb
adj
verb
- To make over as a return.
- To translate into another language.
- To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- To have fat drip off meat from cooking.
- To cause to become.
- To pass down.
- To give; to give back; to deliver.
- To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- To yield or give way.
noun
verb
- To be resurrected.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- To attain a higher status.
- To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To have its source (in a particular place).
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To develop.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- To slope upward.
- To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To move upwards.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To cause to go up or ascend.
noun
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The height of an arch or a step.
adj
- not yielding a return
- very tired
- unerringly accurate
- physically inactive
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking resilience or bounce
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- no longer having force or relevance
- the complete stoppage of an action
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- devoid of activity
adj
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
adv
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
noun
verb
- To repeatedly return.
- To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- To ring or sound with many echos.
- To rebound or recoil.
- To have a lasting effect.
- To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- To fuse by reverberated heat.
- To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
adj
verb
adj
verb
verb
verb
- To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate; to make lively again.
- To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.
- To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
- To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
- To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state
- To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew, or to prevent from dying.
- To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
- To recover its natural or metallic state (e.g. a metal)
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