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Webster 1828 Edition


Returning

RETURN'ING

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ppr.
Giving, carrying or sending back; coming or going back; making report.

Definition 2024


returning

returning

English

Verb

returning

  1. present participle of return

Noun

returning (plural returnings)

  1. The act of one who returns; a coming back.
    • 2012, Michael Phillips, Land of the Brave and the Free (page 221)
      It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.