Return \Re*turn"\, v. t.
   1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a
      borrowed book, or a hired horse.
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            Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
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   3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
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            The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own
            head.                                 --1 Kings ii.
                                                  44.
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   4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return
      thanks.
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   5. To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
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            If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me,
            that I affect to be thought more impartial than I
            am.                                   --Dryden.
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   6. To report, or bring back and make known.
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            And all the people answered together, . . . and
            Moses returned the words of the people unto the
            Lord.                                 --Ex. xix. 8.
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   7. To render, as an account, usually an official account, to
      a superior; to report officially by a list or statement;
      as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to
      return the result of an election.
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   8. Hence, to elect according to the official report of the
      election officers. [Eng.]
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   9. To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with
      a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
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   10. To convey into official custody, or to a general
       depository.
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             Instead of a ship, he should levy money, and return
             the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use.
                                                  --Clarendon.
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   11. (Tennis) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
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   12. (Card Playing) To lead in response to the lead of one's
       partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a
       club.
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   To return a lead (Card Playing), to lead the same suit led
      by one's partner.
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   Syn: To restore; requite; repay; recompense; render; remit;
        report.
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