RETURNING Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

returning

verb

present participle of return

as in restoring

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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as in yielding

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

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as in responding

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 reverting

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 returning At Emerald Organics in Fort Worth, staff said customers started returning within hours. —

Briseida Holguin, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026 Plus, the Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning safely from humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. —

Grace Miserocchi, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026 With Clark returning from injury, their core intact and at least one new addition, Indiana is looking to finish the job. —

Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026 Connecticut’s returning frontcourt is headlined by 2025 first-round draft pick Aneesah Morrow and former UConn standout Aaliyah Edwards, entering their second and third seasons in the league respectively. —

Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026 All major characters from the original show will be returning, minus Per Sullivan. —

Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026 Spacecraft returning from the moon hit Earth's atmosphere at tremendous speeds — 24,000 mph (38,600 kph) or thereabouts. —

Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026 Consider returning in the winter to snowshoe portions of the Ice Age Trail, too. —

Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026 However, Edwards returned the favor four minutes into the second half for his foul on Wayne Frederick, returning the match to even strength. —

ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026

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The college aims to give its students an education that is not just about their work but about their lives—instilling in them a sense of purpose, restoring their feeling of competence, teaching them virtue.

— Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
Passage of the resolution would nullify the withdrawal and prevent a future presidential administration from restoring it.

— Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 16 Apr. 2026