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Webster 1828 Edition

Returning

RETURN'ING

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ppr.

Giving, carrying or sending back; coming or going back; making report.

Definition 2024

returning

returning

English

Verb

returning

present participle of return

Noun

returning ‎(plural returnings)

The act of one who returns; a coming back.
- 2012, Michael Phillips, Land of the Brave and the Free (page 221)
  It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.