Returning and Backing

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

noun

• The act of providing approval and support.
  • usage: "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"
  • synonyms: backup, championship, patronage
• Something forming a back that is added for strengthening.
  • synonyms: mount
• Financial resources provided to make some project possible.
  • usage: "the foundation provided support for the experiment"
  • synonyms: support, financial support, funding, financial backing

verb

• Be behind; approve of.
  • usage: "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"
  • synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support
• Travel backward.
  • usage: "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree"
  • synonyms: back
• Give support or one's approval to.
  • usage: "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project"
  • synonyms: second, back, endorse, indorse
• Cause to travel backward.
  • usage: "back the car into the parking spot"
  • synonyms: back
• Support financial backing for.
  • usage: "back this enterprise"
  • synonyms: back
• Be in back of.
  • usage: "My garage backs their yard"
  • synonyms: back
• Place a bet on.
  • usage: "Which horse are you backing"; "I'm betting on the new horse"
  • synonyms: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt
• Shift to a counterclockwise direction.
  • usage: "the wind backed"
  • synonyms: back
• Establish as valid or genuine.
  • usage: "Can you back up your claims"
  • synonyms: back, back up
• Strengthen by providing with a back or backing.
  • synonyms: back

• (n.) The act of moving backward or of putting or moving anything backward.
• (n.) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.
• (n.) That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Back.
• (n.) Support or aid given to a person or cause.