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return
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of RETURN
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to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction <when I asked him to sit down to dinner, he returned that he would come when he was good and ready>
Related Words acknowledge, comment, communicate, correspond, react, remark; counter, defend, deny, explain, field, rebut, refute
Near Antonyms challenge, cross-examine, examine, grill, interrogate, pump, quiz; poll, query, survey
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to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level <vowed to do anything to keep the recovering alcoholic from returning to his dissolute ways>
Related Words backslide, lapse, relapse; throw back; ebb; decline, degenerate, drop, fall, retrograde, worsen
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