1. Tending to return to an earlier state
   - reverting 
2. Tending to be turned back
   - reversive

1. 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" 
2. Give back
   - render 
3. Go back to a previous state
   - revert, retrovert, regress, turn back 
4. Go back to something earlier
   - hark back, come back, recall 
5. Bring back to the point of departure
   - take back, bring back 
6. Return in kind
   "return a compliment"; "return her love" 
7. Make a return
   "return a kickback" 
8. Answer back
   - retort, come back, repay, riposte, rejoin 
9. Be restored
   "Her old vigour returned"
   - come back 
10. Pay back
    - refund, repay, give back 
11. Pass down
    - render, deliver 
12. Elect again
    - reelect 
13. Be inherited by
    "The land returned to the family"
    - fall, pass, devolve 
14. Return to a previous position; in mathematics
    "The point returned to the interior of the figure" 
15. Give or supply
    - render, yield, give, generate 
16. 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

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