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Returning

//ɹɪˈtɜːnɪŋ// noun, verb

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

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