RETURNED Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

returned

verb

past tense of return

as in restored

to bring, send, or put back to a former or proper place when I'm done reading a book, I always return it to the very shelf I got it from

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took
removed

as in yielded

to produce as revenue this technology stock is expected to return a healthy profit

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as in responded

to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction when I asked him to sit down to dinner, he returned that he would come when he was good and ready

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as in reverted

to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level vowed to do anything to keep the recovering alcoholic from returning to his dissolute ways

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Recent Examples of returned Angels pitcher Alek Manoah returned from Tommy John surgery that had sidelined him since May 29, 2024, and faced his former team for the first time. —

Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026 In February 2024, the DNA returned a match to Trepanier, whose DNA had been submitted in a separate case. —

Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 8 May 2026 There weren’t as many glaring errors when the NFL also used replacement officials for one week of exhibition games and the opening week in 2001 before the labor dispute was resolved shortly after 9/11, and the regular officials returned in time when the season resumed after a one-week break. —

Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 There weren’t as many glaring errors when the NFL also used replacement officials for one week of exhibition games and the opening week in 2001 before the labor dispute was resolved shortly after 9/11, and the regular officials returned in time when the season resumed following a one-week break. —

ABC News, 8 May 2026 Director Simon McQuoid has returned for the sequel, with a new screenwriter, Jeremy Slater, penning the script. —

Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026 However, some 15,000 of these pieces were not returned because their original owners’ and heirs’ identities could not be established. —

Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 8 May 2026 Emails to Pratt requesting comment were not returned. —

Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 8 May 2026 One resident who returned home from the ship is in good health and is being monitored, Virginia Department of Health spokesperson Maria Reppas told USA TODAY on May 7. —

Melina Khan, USA Today, 8 May 2026

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Verb

Duneland Superintendent Chip Pettit said power was restored at Liberty Elementary, Liberty Intermediate/Middle, Jackson and Brummitt elementaries Tuesday but the district’s bus barn remained without power.

— Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
The lost time spent with his family can never be restored.

— Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026