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Returned

Return \Re*turn"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Returned; p. pr. & vb. n. Returning.] [OE. returnen, retournen, F. retourner; pref. re- re- + tourner to turn. See Turn.]

  1. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. ``Return to your father's house.''
    --Chaucer.

    On their embattled ranks the waves return.
    --Milton.

    If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom.
    --Locke.

    Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
    --Gen. iii. 19.

  2. To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.

    With the year Seasons return; but not me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn.
    --Milton.

  3. To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.

    He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned.
    --Pope.

  4. To revert; to pass back into possession.

    And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David.
    --1Kings xii. 26.

  5. To go back in thought, narration, or argument. ``But to return to my story.''
    --Fielding.

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returned

vb. (en-past of: return)

Usage examples of "returned".

It seemed to her as if she had just returned from some long walk, from some accident, from some affray in which she had been bruised.

The difficultie and danger he told the Salvaves, of the Mines, great gunnes, and other Engins, exceedingly affrighted them, yet according to his request they went to James towne in as bitter weather as could be of frost and snow, and within three days returned with an answer.

The arms, horses, and camels, with an immense treasure of gold, silver, silk, and precious stones, were all delivered to the conqueror, who, leaving only a garrison of six hundred archers, returned to Emesa, and employed some time in the distribution of rewards and punishments at the end of so memorable a war, which restored to the obedience of Rome those provinces that had renounced their allegiance since the captivity of Valerian.

Hotel Allegretto, returned to London, and booked the whole clan passage on the next steamer home.

By the time Miss Tyler had returned with a tray, Lady Millicent had re-entered the parlor, and the musicians had switched to an allemande, from a suite by Herr Bach, whose sonorities included the sound of a few string instruments.

Norman left his allotment shed, returned to his van, shouted abuse at it and drove homeward.

Pete returned from connecting in the second allotropic iron generator.

Leah dined on pasta Amatriciana, which she pronounced delicious and wondered aloud why her father told her she would never again eat good pasta until they returned to Rome.

Nurse Banks went to the side table, took up the ampoule of camphor, went through the pantomime of filling a syringe and returned to the patient.

As I returned to the inn after a short walk, mine host handed me the bill of the play announcing four performances of the Didone of Metastasio at the Spada.

I should only annoy the ladies and tire myself in waiting for some chance favour if I stayed, I bade them adieu and returned to Sulzbach the next morning.

I returned to Washington that afternoon and was asked by Senate Republican leader Trent Lott to be the liaison for the Republican senators to the fledgling medical and law enforcement investigation into the anthrax exposure at the Hart building.

Milton, the child apostate, would have been confirmed in his skepticism, because his spirit never returned that day, trying to get past me.

Rice returned to urge the appeal on their immediate attention, while Judson remained to enter on that noble apostolate for which his praise is in all the churches.

Imagine my teenage wrath when, time after time, my homework was returned with this well-meant floating apostrophe struck out.