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Give back

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Verb
  1. 1
    To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.). transitive

    "Give me back my book!"

  2. 2
    pay back wordnet
  3. 3
    To contribute money, goods, or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success. idiomatic, intransitive, transitive

    "We organize this Thanksgiving dinner at the old-age home to give back to the community."

  4. 4
    To recede; to retreat. archaic

    "Yet the Fiends ſeemed to come nearer and nearer, but when they were come even almoſt at him, he cried out with a moſt vehement voice, I will walk in the ſtrength of the Lord God; ſo they gave back, and came no farther."

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