return

return is a 6-letter English word with 61 senses as transitive/intransitive verb, intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To turn again. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 61 senses

Definitions

1. transitive/intransitive verb. To turn again.
2. intransitive verb. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
3. intransitive verb. To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
4. intransitive verb. To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
5. intransitive verb. To revert; to pass back into possession.
6. intransitive verb. To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
7. transitive verb. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
8. transitive verb. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
9. transitive verb. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
10. transitive verb. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
11. transitive verb. To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
12. transitive verb. To report, or bring back and make known.
13. transitive verb. To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
14. transitive verb. Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
15. transitive verb. To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
16. transitive verb. To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
17. transitive verb. To bat (the ball) back over the net.
18. transitive verb. To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
19. noun. The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
20. noun. The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
21. noun. That which is returned.
22. noun. A payment; a remittance; a requital.
23. noun. An answer; as, a return to one's question.
24. noun. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
25. noun. The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
26. noun. The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
27. noun. The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
28. noun. The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.
29. noun. The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
30. noun. A day in bank. See Return day, below.
31. noun. An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
32. noun. The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
33. noun. the act of someone appearing again

    "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited"

    Synonyms: reappearance

34. noun. a coming to or returning home

    "on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party"

    Synonyms: homecoming

35. noun. getting something back again

    "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"

    Synonyms: regaining, restitution, restoration

36. noun. the act of going back to a prior location

    "they set out on their return to the base camp"

37. noun. (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
38. noun. a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player

    "he won the point on a cross-court return"

39. noun. a reciprocal group action

    "in return we gave them as good as we got"

40. noun. the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
41. noun. document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability

    "his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return"

42. noun. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)

    "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"

    Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, riposte

43. noun. happening again (especially at regular intervals)

    "the return of spring"

    Synonyms: recurrence

44. noun. the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
45. noun. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

    "the average return was about 5%"

    Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, take, takings, yield

46. verb. go back to a previous state

    "We reverted to the old rules"

    Synonyms: regress, retrovert, revert

47. verb. be restored

    "Her old vigor returned"

48. verb. answer back

    Synonyms: rejoin, repay, retort, riposte

49. verb. submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority

    "submit a bill to a legislative body"

50. verb. go back to something earlier

    "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

    Synonyms: recall

51. verb. pass down

    "render a verdict"

    "deliver a judgment"

    Synonyms: deliver, render

52. verb. make a return

    "return a kickback"

53. verb. give or supply

    "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"

    "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"

    Synonyms: generate, give, render, yield

54. verb. 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"

55. verb. return to a previous position; in mathematics

    "The point returned to the interior of the figure"

56. verb. bring back to the point of departure
57. verb. be inherited by

    "The estate fell to my sister"

    "The land returned to the family"

    Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass

58. verb. pay back

    "Please refund me my money"

    Synonyms: refund, repay

59. verb. give back

    "render money"

    Synonyms: render

60. verb. return in kind

    "return a compliment"

    "return her love"

61. verb. elect again

    Synonyms: reelect

Synonyms

reappearance, homecoming, regaining, restitution, restoration, comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, riposte, recurrence, issue, payoff, proceeds, take, takings, yield, regress, retrovert, revert, rejoin, repay, recall

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in return:

turner

Common word forms

returns, returned, returner, returning, returnable, returnless

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