Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.). 2 (context transitive intransitive idiomatic English) To contribute money, goods(,) or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success. 3 (context archaic English) To recede; to retreat.
WordNet
Usage examples of "give back".
Until it would agree to do this the Rebels would not agree to exchange, and the only motive--save revenge--which could have inspired the Rebel maltreatment of the prisoners, was the expectation of raising such a clamor in the North as would force the Government to consent to a disadvantageous exchange, and to give back to the Confederacy, at its most critical period one hundred thousand fresh, able-bodied soldiers.
The goal for the day was to be steady and not to give back any of the time I had gained at Sestriere.
You cannot imagine that these nobles and priests, who absorb everything, and give back nothing, are as good patriots as you are?
Under the flying clouds of her excitement it was no longer a shallow flower-cup but a darkening gleaming mirror that might give back strange depths of feeling.
The ways of the footmen were paved with red stone, and those of the riders strewn with white sand compactly rolled, but not so solid as to give back an echo to hoof or wheel.
He wants the ship to go immediately to a world somewhere where he can get off, even if it means breaking a contract and having to give back money.
In short, to re-establish social truth, to give back to liberty her throne, to give back the people to the people, to give back sovereignty to man, to replace the purple upon the head of France, to restore in their fulness reason and equity, to suppress every germ of antagonism by restoring every man to himself, to abolish the obstacle which royalty opposes to the immense universal concord, to replace the human race on a level with right, what cause more just, and, consequently, what war more grand?
How they give back the flames of the sun, brightness for brightness!
Why we end up the first country in history to voluntarily give back land won in battle in exchange for an ill-defined peace with people who hate our guts.