Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To turn again.
 
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Examples
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That is the corner we are just about to turn, and it is really a re-turn - to paganism and barbarism and we are very nearly there already.
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In addition, why do you have to: re-turn off notifications? re-specify privacy preferences? re-block negative people?
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Greatness was in the beginning, and is still contained there for us to search it out; that is; if we will but abandon the metaphysics which has degenerated into a destructive nihilism, and re-turn to the greatness of an authentic re-beginning, a re-building which can then be projected forward in an authentic manner for the future possibilities of Dasein.
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Greatness was in the beginning, and is still contained there for us to search it out; that is; if we will but abandon the metaphysics which has degenerated into a destructive nihilism, and re-turn to the greatness of an authentic re-beginning, a re-building which can then be projected forward in an authentic manner for the future possibilities of Dasein.
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I have only to request one favour of you: that you will suspend for one week, in regard to me, your proposed jour-ney; but for one week; and I will, now I am in England, stay some months; perhaps till your re-turn.
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I said this, to hear what answer she would re-turn.
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Most gracefully does the dear girl receive and re-turn a compliment; but this, Lady L.
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Fenwick, you dog, said Mr. Greville, we must re-turn; Miss Byron looks grave.
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Yowls and caterwauls filled the cavern and she felt something brush against her, but she was loath to re-turn to the present.
Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001
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Yowls and caterwauls filled the cavern and she felt something brush against her, but she was loath to re-turn to the present.
Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001
 
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