Returning
/ɹɪˈtɜːnɪŋ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 present participle and gerund of return form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 tending to be turned back wordnet
- 2 tending to return to an earlier state wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"The number of Japanese students returning after life abroad has been increasing as of late."