return

1. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).Examples: "Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter."; "The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house."; ""I came through and I shall return," General MacArthur declared when he spoke at Terowie of the beleagured Philippines."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.Examples: "To return to my story[…]"intransitive

3. (intransitive) To recur; to come again.Examples: "Winter returns every year."intransitive

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.Examples: "‘I suppose here is none woll be glad to returne – and as for me,’ seyde Sir Cador, ‘I had lever dye this day that onys to turne my bak.’"intransitiveobsolete

5. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.Examples: "Whan Kyng Marke harde hym sey that worde, he returned his horse and abode by hym."obsoletetransitive

6. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.Examples: "Please return your hands to your lap."transitive