What part of speech is returned?

Returned can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. returned is a verb, past participle of return (infinitive).
  • 2. returned is a verb, past simple of return (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does returned mean?

Definitions

Verb

return - go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
return - make a return; "return a kickback"
return - return in kind; "return a compliment"; "return her love"
return - submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority; "submit a bill to a legislative body"
return - bring back to the point of departure
return - return to a previous position; in mathematics; "The point returned to the interior of the figure"
return - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
return - give or supply; "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"
return - pay back; "Please refund me my money"
return - answer back
return - give back; "render money"
return - be inherited by; "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"
return - elect again
return - go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
return - be restored; "Her old vigor returned"
return - pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"

Examples of returned

#   Sentence  
1. verb Mosques are calling for donating blood, food, and medicine for Fallujah, and several convoys have already headed out for Fallujah, most of them returned later though.
2. verb If even a modicum of normality and security can be returned to Iraq, its citizens will be able to benefit from the country's petroleum reserves.
3. verb Now, after the Swift boat episode, the spotlight has returned to Bush.
4. verb After the alert condition had long since returned to yellow, Zawahiri in late February issued another audiotape.
5. verb This means that I could be away from the office for several days and miss a message entirely, because it would have expired and disappeared by the time I returned.
6. verb She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the men now walked several yards behind their wives.
7. verb Let me put it this way - If you have watched TV recently, crossed a modern bridge, flown in an airplane, recieved any form of modern medicine, did any mathematics, drove a car, used a cellular phone, etc. then you have somehow directly reaped the rewards which NASA has returned to us.
8. verb Where there had been only one beaver colony in the park's northern range before the wolves returned, now there are nine.
9. verb Number of memorial services for the returned dead that Bush has attended since the beginning of the war.
10. verb That horse returned to racing and we didn't notice much difference.
11. verb I can say all of our EPM horses were treated early when they were showing mild signs like Shee gave and all returned to racing.
12. verb Was fast and easy, Just had our car returned this morning, I would recommend these Mobile Mechanics for sure.
13. verb With a smirk on her face she told me NO MONEY IS BEING RETURNED and THAT IS THE WAY IT WAS.
14. verb After complaining on September 10th to National Home Furnishings, Boyles, the Hickory Furniture Mart and Home Delivery Service the latter finally called me back and said they would be up to pick the dresser and chest of drawers at some future point and at some later point it would be professional repaired and at some later point it would be returned.
15. verb We returned after 3PM, found no one there, and a note from the innkeeper with directions to our room.
Sentence  
verb
Mosques are calling for donating blood, food, and medicine for Fallujah, and several convoys have already headed out for Fallujah, most of them returned later though.
If even a modicum of normality and security can be returned to Iraq, its citizens will be able to benefit from the country's petroleum reserves.
Now, after the Swift boat episode, the spotlight has returned to Bush.
After the alert condition had long since returned to yellow, Zawahiri in late February issued another audiotape.
This means that I could be away from the office for several days and miss a message entirely, because it would have expired and disappeared by the time I returned.
She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the men now walked several yards behind their wives.
Let me put it this way - If you have watched TV recently, crossed a modern bridge, flown in an airplane, recieved any form of modern medicine, did any mathematics, drove a car, used a cellular phone, etc. then you have somehow directly reaped the rewards which NASA has returned to us.
Where there had been only one beaver colony in the park's northern range before the wolves returned, now there are nine.
Number of memorial services for the returned dead that Bush has attended since the beginning of the war.
That horse returned to racing and we didn't notice much difference.
I can say all of our EPM horses were treated early when they were showing mild signs like Shee gave and all returned to racing.
Was fast and easy, Just had our car returned this morning, I would recommend these Mobile Mechanics for sure.
With a smirk on her face she told me NO MONEY IS BEING RETURNED and THAT IS THE WAY IT WAS.
After complaining on September 10th to National Home Furnishings, Boyles, the Hickory Furniture Mart and Home Delivery Service the latter finally called me back and said they would be up to pick the dresser and chest of drawers at some future point and at some later point it would be professional repaired and at some later point it would be returned.
We returned after 3PM, found no one there, and a note from the innkeeper with directions to our room.

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