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returned

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɹɪˈtəːnd//
  • United States//ɹɪˈtɝnd//

Bent back; angled.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of returnsimple past and past participle of return

adjective

  1. 1

    Bent back; angled.

  2. 2

    That has come back.

  3. 3

    Yielded as a return on an investment etc.

  4. 4

    Back home having been discharged from military service.

    There are about thirty full-blooded returned men in this state whom I believe are not entitled to the old-age pension.

Forms

comparative
more returned
superlative
most returned
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).