| relapse | | |
| n. (act) | 1. backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting | a failure to maintain a higher state. |
| ~ failure | an act that fails.; "his failure to pass the test" |
| ~ recidivism | habitual relapse into crime. |
| v. (change) | 2. get worse, relapse | deteriorate in health.; "he relapsed" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| v. (body) | 3. fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress | go back to bad behavior.; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" |
| ~ retrovert, revert, regress, turn back, return | go back to a previous state.; "We reverted to the old rules" |
| give back | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. give back, refund, repay, return | pay back.; "Please refund me my money" |
| ~ pay | give money, usually in exchange for goods or services.; "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please" |
| ~ reimburse | pay back for some expense incurred.; "Can the company reimburse me for my professional travel?" |
| ~ restitute, restore | give or bring back.; "Restore the stolen painting to its rightful owner" |
| go back | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. date back, date from, go back | belong to an earlier time.; "This story dates back 200 years" |
| ~ initiate, originate, start | bring into being.; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation" |
| ~ ascend | go back in order of genealogical succession.; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly" |
| v. (communication) | 2. go back, recur | return in thought or speech to something. |
| ~ hark back, come back, recall, return | go back to something earlier.; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" |
| v. (change) | 3. go back, recover, recuperate | regain a former condition after a financial loss.; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate" |
| ~ retrovert, revert, regress, turn back, return | go back to a previous state.; "We reverted to the old rules" |
| ~ rebound, rally | return to a former condition.; "The jilted lover soon rallied and found new friends"; "The stock market rallied" |
| reiterate | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell | to say, state, or perform again.; "She kept reiterating her request" |
| ~ tell | let something be known.; "Tell them that you will be late" |
| ~ perseverate | psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus.; "The subjects in this study perseverated" |
| ~ ditto | repeat an action or statement.; "The next speaker dittoed her argument" |
| ~ harp, dwell | come back to.; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" |
| ~ translate, interpret, render | restate (words) from one language into another language.; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N." |
| ~ paraphrase, rephrase, reword | express the same message in different words. |
| ~ sum up, summarize, summarise, resume | give a summary (of).; "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" |
| ~ quote, cite | repeat a passage from.; "He quoted the Bible to her" |
| resume | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. resume, sketch, survey | short descriptive summary (of events). |
| ~ sum-up, summary | a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form.; "he gave a summary of the conclusions" |
| n. (communication) | 2. curriculum vitae, cv, resume | a summary of your academic and work history. |
| ~ sum-up, summary | a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form.; "he gave a summary of the conclusions" |
| v. (change) | 3. re-start, restart, resume | take up or begin anew.; "We resumed the negotiations" |
| ~ preserve, uphold, carry on, continue, bear on | keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last.; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions" |
| v. (change) | 4. resume, take up | return to a previous location or condition.; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (social) | 5. resume | assume anew.; "resume a title"; "resume an office"; "resume one's duties" |
| ~ assume, take on, take over, adopt | take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities.; "When will the new President assume office?" |
| v. (communication) | 6. resume, sum up, summarise, summarize | give a summary (of).; "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" |
| ~ ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell | to say, state, or perform again.; "She kept reiterating her request" |
| ~ abstract | give an abstract (of). |
| ~ precis | make a summary (of). |
| ~ docket | make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list. |
| ~ recap, recapitulate | summarize briefly.; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas" |
| ~ sum, summarise, sum up, summarize | be a summary of.; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" |
| return | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. income tax return, return, tax return | document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability.; "his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return" |
| ~ legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument | (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right. |
| ~ amended return | a tax return that corrects the information in an earlier return. |
| ~ declaration of estimated tax, estimated tax return | return required of a taxpayer whose tax withheld from income does not meet the tax liability for the year. |
| ~ false return | an incorrect income tax return. |
| ~ information return | a return that provides information to the tax collector but does not compute the tax liability. |
| ~ joint return | a return filed by a husband and wife. |
| n. (act) | 2. homecoming, return | a coming to or returning home.; "on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party" |
| ~ arrival | the act of arriving at a certain place.; "they awaited her arrival" |
| ~ repatriation | the act of returning to the country of origin. |
| n. (event) | 3. coming back, return | the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction. |
| ~ turning, turn | a movement in a new direction.; "the turning of the wind" |
| n. (act) | 4. regaining, restitution, restoration, return | getting something back again.; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing" |
| ~ acquisition | the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something.; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another" |
| ~ clawback | finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way.; "the Treasury will find some clawback for the extra benefits members received" |
| n. (act) | 5. return | the act of going back to a prior location.; "they set out on their return to the base camp" |
| ~ movement, move, motion | the act of changing location from one place to another.; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" |
| ~ reentry | the act of entering again. |
| ~ remand | the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial). |
| n. (possession) | 6. issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.; "the average return was about 5%" |
| ~ income | the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time. |
| ~ economic rent, rent | the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions. |
| ~ payback | financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment). |
| n. (event) | 7. recurrence, return | happening again (especially at regular intervals).; "the return of spring" |
| ~ repeat, repetition | an event that repeats.; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" |
| ~ atavism, throwback, reversion | a reappearance of an earlier characteristic. |
| ~ flashback | an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier). |
| n. (communication) | 8. comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte | a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one).; "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher" |
| ~ back talk, backtalk, sass, sassing, lip, mouth | an impudent or insolent rejoinder.; "don't give me any of your sass" |
| ~ reply, response | the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange.; "he growled his reply" |
| n. (artifact) | 9. return, return key | the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed. |
| ~ key | a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed. |
| n. (act) | 10. getting even, paying back, return | a reciprocal group action.; "in return we gave them as good as we got" |
| ~ group action | action taken by a group of people. |
| ~ requital, payment | an act of requiting; returning in kind. |
| ~ retaliation, revenge | action taken in return for an injury or offense. |
| ~ reciprocation | the act of making or doing something in return. |
| ~ tit for tat | an equivalent given in return. |
| n. (act) | 11. return | a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player.; "he won the point on a cross-court return" |
| ~ lawn tennis, tennis | a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court. |
| ~ tennis shot, tennis stroke | the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket. |
| ~ backhand, backhand shot, backhand stroke | a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke. |
| ~ chop shot, chop | a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball. |
| ~ drive | (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash). |
| ~ drop shot, dink | a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net. |
| ~ forehand, forehand shot, forehand stroke | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash). |
| ~ get | a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent. |
| ~ ground stroke | a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once. |
| ~ half volley | a tennis return made by hitting the ball immediately after it bounces. |
| ~ lob | an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc. |
| ~ smash, overhead | a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head. |
| ~ passing shot | a tennis return that passes an opponent who has approached the net. |
| ~ volley | a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces. |
| n. (act) | 12. return | (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble. |
| ~ american football, american football game | a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays. |
| ~ running, running game, running play, run | (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team.; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put great emphasis on running" |
| n. (act) | 13. reappearance, return | the act of someone appearing again.; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited" |
| ~ appearance | the act of appearing in public view.; "the rookie made a brief appearance in the first period"; "it was Bernhardt's last appearance in America" |
| ~ comeback | return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity. |
| v. (motion) | 14. return | go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean" |
| ~ resurrect, uprise, rise | return from the dead.; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ revisit | visit again.; "We revisited Rome after 25 years" |
| ~ retrace, trace | to go back over again.; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path" |
| ~ backtrack, double back, turn back | retrace one's course.; "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back" |
| ~ cut back, flash back | return in time.; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story" |
| ~ home | return home accurately from a long distance.; "homing pigeons" |
| ~ go home, head home | return home.; "After the movie, we went home" |
| ~ return | return to a previous position; in mathematics.; "The point returned to the interior of the figure" |
| ~ boomerang | return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang. |
| ~ bounce | come back after being refused.; "the check bounced" |
| v. (possession) | 15. render, return | give back.; "render money" |
| ~ give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody.; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" |
| ~ feed back, resubmit | submit (information) again to a program or automatic system. |
| v. (change) | 16. regress, retrovert, return, revert, turn back | go back to a previous state.; "We reverted to the old rules" |
| ~ recidivate, relapse, retrogress, lapse, regress, fall back | go back to bad behavior.; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" |
| ~ change by reversal, reverse, turn | change to the contrary.; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern" |
| ~ resile | return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed.; "The rubber tubes resile" |
| ~ recuperate, go back, recover | regain a former condition after a financial loss.; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate" |
| v. (communication) | 17. come back, hark back, recall, return | go back to something earlier.; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" |
| ~ denote, refer | have as a meaning.; "`multi-' denotes `many' " |
| ~ go back, recur | return in thought or speech to something. |
| v. (motion) | 18. bring back, return, take back | bring back to the point of departure. |
| ~ bring, convey, take | take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" |
| v. (possession) | 19. return | return in kind.; "return a compliment"; "return her love" |
| ~ redound | return or recoil.; "Fame redounds to the heroes" |
| ~ reciprocate | act, feel, or give mutually or in return.; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!" |
| v. (contact) | 20. return | make a return.; "return a kickback" |
| ~ football, football game | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal. |
| ~ carry, transport | move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body.; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" |
| v. (communication) | 21. come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return, riposte | answer back. |
| ~ answer, reply, respond | react verbally.; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation" |
| v. (change) | 22. come back, return | be restored.; "Her old vigor returned" |
| ~ re-emerge, reappear | appear again.; "The sores reappeared on her body"; "Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago" |
| v. (communication) | 23. deliver, render, return | pass down.; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment" |
| ~ communicate, pass along, put across, pass on, pass | transmit information.; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" |
| v. (social) | 24. reelect, return | elect again. |
| ~ elect | select by a vote for an office or membership.; "We elected him chairman of the board" |
| v. (possession) | 25. devolve, fall, pass, return | be inherited by.; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" |
| ~ change hands, change owners | be transferred to another owner.; "This restaurant changed hands twice last year" |
| ~ light, fall | fall to somebody by assignment or lot.; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims" |
| ~ accrue, fall | come into the possession of.; "The house accrued to the oldest son" |
| v. (motion) | 26. return | return to a previous position; in mathematics.; "The point returned to the interior of the figure" |
| ~ return | go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean" |
| v. (creation) | 27. generate, give, render, return, yield | give or supply.; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" |
| ~ produce, create, make | create or manufacture a man-made product.; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" |
| ~ yield, give | cause to happen or be responsible for.; "His two singles gave the team the victory" |
| ~ establish, give | bring about.; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth" |
| v. (communication) | 28. return | submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority.; "submit a bill to a legislative body" |
| ~ submit, subject | refer for judgment or consideration.; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court" |
| ~ report out | return a bill after consideration and revision to a legislative body. |
| revert | | |
| v. (change) | 1. revert | undergo reversion, as in a mutation. |
| ~ mutate | undergo mutation.; "cells mutate" |
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