Correcting and Returning

verb

• Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.
  • usage: "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
  • synonyms: return
• Give back.
  • usage: "render money"
  • synonyms: render, return
• Go back to a previous state.
  • usage: "We reverted to the old rules"
  • synonyms: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
• Go back to something earlier.
  • usage: "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
  • synonyms: hark back, return, come back, recall
• Bring back to the point of departure.
  • synonyms: return, take back, bring back
• Return in kind.
  • usage: "return a compliment"; "return her love"
  • synonyms: return
• Make a return.
  • usage: "return a kickback"
  • synonyms: return
• Answer back.
  • synonyms: retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin
• Be restored.
  • usage: "Her old vigor returned"
  • synonyms: come back, return
• Pay back.
  • usage: "Please refund me my money"
  • synonyms: refund, return, repay, give back
• Pass down.
  • usage: "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
  • synonyms: render, deliver, return
• Elect again.
  • synonyms: reelect, return
• Be inherited by.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: fall, return, pass, devolve
• Return to a previous position; in mathematics.
  • usage: "The point returned to the interior of the figure"
  • synonyms: return
• Give or supply.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: render, yield, return, give, generate
• Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority.
  • usage: "submit a bill to a legislative body"
  • synonyms: return

adjective

• Tending to return to an earlier state.
  • synonyms: reverting
• Tending to be turned back.
  • synonyms: reversive