1. To bring back to the point of departure; SYN. take back, bring back.
2. To come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity; SYN. go back, get back, come back.
3. To make a return, as of a punt or a kickback, in football.
4. To return in kind
5. To return to a previous position; in mathematics:
6. To submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
1. To come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject)
2. To return to the proprietor or his or her heirs at the end of a reversion
3. To return to an ancestral type
4. To go back to a previous state; SYN. return, regress, turn back.