noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of one who returns; a coming back.

   "It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of return form-of, gerund, participle, present

Adjective

1. 1
   tending to be turned back wordnet
2. 2
   tending to return to an earlier state wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

about facebackingbackslidingbackwardcontinuouscyclic

Example

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"The number of Japanese students returning after life abroad has been increasing as of late."

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