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возвращаться — meaning in English

vozvrashchatsya

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English meaning

  • reciprocate verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
  • return verb To come or go back to a place, or to give something back to its owner.

Senses

возвращаться is used for these senses in English:

  • back up (idiomatic, intransitive) To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
  • reciprocate (transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
  • return (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

reciprocate — full definition

  1. verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
  2. verb Of machinery, to move back and forth repeatedly, like a piston.

return — full definition

  1. verb To come or go back to a place, or to give something back to its owner.
  2. verb To take an item back to a shop for a refund or exchange.
  3. noun The act of coming back, or of giving something back.
  4. noun The profit or loss made on an investment.
  5. noun A form submitted to the government reporting income for tax purposes.

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