[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

return \return"\, v. t.
   1. to bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a
      borrowed book, or a hired horse.
      1913 webster

            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.
        1913 webster
see also:
to return a lead 

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