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returning

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returning

  1. present participle and gerund of return

Noun

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returning (plural returnings)

  1. The act of one who returns; a coming back.
    • 2012, Michael Phillips, Land of the Brave and the Free, page 221:
      It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.