| 释义 |
Adjective: returning ri'turning- Tending to return to an earlier state
- reverting - Tending to be turned back
- reversive
Verb: return ri'turn- 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" - Give back
- render - Go back to a previous state
- revert, retrovert, regress, turn back - Go back to something earlier
- hark back, come back, recall - Bring back to the point of departure
- take back, bring back - Return in kind
"return a compliment"; "return her love" - Make a return
"return a kickback" - Answer back
- retort, come back, repay, riposte, rejoin - Be restored
"Her old vigour returned"
- come back - Pay back
- refund, repay, give back - Pass down
- render, deliver - Elect again
- reelect - Be inherited by
"The land returned to the family"
- fall, pass, devolve - Return to a previous position; in mathematics
"The point returned to the interior of the figure" - Give or supply
- render, yield, give, generate - Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
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, subject, submit, take, transport, travel, turn Encyclopedia: Return |