Returning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETURNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• RETURN, to go back
• come or go back to a place or person
• go back to (a particular situation)
• (especially of a feeling) reoccur after a period of absence
• play the last nine holes in a round of eighteen holes
• give, put, or send (something) back to a place or person
• feel, say, or do (the same feeling, action, etc.) in response
• (in tennis and other sports) hit or send (the ball) back to an opponent
• intercept (a pass, kick, or fumble by the opposing team) and run upfield with the ball
• (of a judge or jury) state or present (a decision or verdict) in response to a formal request
• yield or make (a profit)
• (of an electorate) elect (a person or party) to office
• continue (a wall) in a changed direction, especially at right angles.
• divert one's attention back to
• lead (a card, especially one of a suit led earlier by one's partner) after taking a trick
NOUN:
• an act of coming or going back to a place or activity
• an act of going back to an earlier state or situation
• the action of returning something
• a thing which has been given or sent back, especially an unwanted ticket for a sporting event or play
• a ticket which allows someone to travel to a place and back again
• an electrical conductor bringing a current back to its source.
• a second contest between the same opponents
• a profit from an investment
• a good rate of return.
• an official report or statement submitted in response to a formal demand
• an endorsement or report by a court officer or sheriff on a writ.
• election to office
• a mechanism or key on a typewriter that returns the carriage to a fixed position at the start of a new line.
• a key pressed on a computer keyboard to simulate a carriage return in a word-processing program, or to indicate the end of a command or data string.
• a part receding from the line of the front, for example the side of a house or of a window opening.
• (in tennis and other sports) a stroke played in response to a serve or other stroke by one's opponent.
• a returning officer's announcement of an election result
ADJECTIVE:
• tending to return to an earlier state
• tending to be turned back
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to come or go back

Words related to RETURNING

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Words that contain RETURNING

unreturning12 unreturningly17

How to use RETURNING in a sentence

• While returning to port came the tragedy of the Amphion.
• After he had done this, he withdrew through the said opening by the same means, and thus appeared as if he were returning to the skies of his own accord.
• Returning to ways and means, we arranged for communication in case of need during the next three days without the necessity of meeting.
• She had been upon a visit far from the city of Gathol and returning home had vanished with her whole escort from the sight of man.
• We see infantry returning and going up, and we feel sick, somehow, to be still safe.
• We first went all over Europe, and are now returning from visiting the principal places in the United States.
• I hope the returning wisdom of Great Britain will, ere long, put an end to this unnatural contest.
• On returning to his lodgings he sat down to consider what was best to be done.
• In returning the ball to the pitcher each time, he should learn to catch it and bring the arm back, with one continuous motion of the hands, without making any stops or angles.
• One night a trooper of the Light Horse was returning to his bivouac from a visit to a friend in another squadron.
• It was then decided, after due deliberation in the Court of Husting, to ask Edward’s advice on the matter before returning an answer.
• Aladdin went out of the hall, and returning soon after, found the window, as he wished it to be, like the others.
• A friend had motored me to Abbeville that afternoon, just in time to catch a leave-train full of men returning from England.
• One day, returning before the sun was fully set, he found seated beside his mother a lovely girl.
• These blacks had, then, freely left the United States, and they were returning to it freely.
• He might even have secured the release of the Antiochians, and all the other Romans who were there in captivity, before returning home.
• SONNET, ON RETURNING TO CALCUTTA AFTER A VOYAGE TO THE STRAITS OF MALACCA.
• Returning now to the narrative, an unpleasant necessity is encountered.
• It was customary to allow a man half wages returning, my partner approving and paying the men, also taking charge of all the expense accounts.
• In the latter part of his reign, either by happy accident or returning good sense, led him to a better choice.
• During the next week the fall term of the Prescott Academy commenced, and the village streets again became lively with returning students.
• Instead of returning her silent greeting, William grinned back at her a cold stare of sarcasm or of rage.
• The people received him as a conqueror returning with victory.
• In the first race Hugi ran so fast away from Thjalfi that on his returning to the starting-place he met him not far from it.
• It does not seem as if he were going to be of much use to them, for instead of returning to China he is to go to St.
• As he was returning to the dining-room he encountered Mrs.

Similar words containing TURN without suffix ing and without prefix re

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