a : a lead in a suit previously led by one's partner in a card game b : the action or an instance of returning a ball (as in football or tennis) 8 chiefly British : round-trip see also:
RETURNING definition: 1. present participle of return 2. to come or go back to a previous place: 3. If people or things…. Learn more.
If a feeling or situation returns, it comes back or happens again after a period when it was not present. Official reports in Algeria suggest that calm is returning to the country.
- a. Reversing or changing direction. b. Having or formed by a reversal or change in direction; returning on itself, as a bend in a road or stream.
‘You were both wonderful!’ ‘So were you!’ we said, returning the compliment. to return a kiss (= to kiss somebody with the same enthusiasm with which they kiss you)
returning Definitions of returning adjective tending to be turned back synonyms: reversive
Synonyms for RETURNING: restoring, replacing, reconveying, yielding, paying, giving, providing, supplying; Antonyms of RETURNING: taking, removing, asking, inquiring, questioning, examining, pumping, interrogating
RETURNING meaning: 1. present participle of return 2. to come or go back to a previous place: 3. If people or things…. Learn more.
If a feeling or situation returns, it comes back or happens again after a period when it was not present. Calm is returning to the country. [VERB] The pain returned in waves. [VERB]
He returned to New York last week. He worked at other jobs but kept returning to mining. She was returning home from a business trip when the plane crashed.