• Returning

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    returning
    1. Present participle of return

    Full definition of returning

    Noun

    returning

    (plural returnings)
    1. The act of one who returns; a coming back.
      • 2012, Michael Phillips, Land of the Brave and the Free (page 221)It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.
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