give back
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give back
verb gives back · giving back · gave back · given back
- To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.). Give me back my book!
- To contribute money, goods, or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success. We organize this Thanksgiving dinner at the old-age home to give back to the community.
- To recede; to retreat. Yet the Fiends ſeemed to come nearer and nearer, but when they were come even almoſt at him, he cried out with a moſt vehement voice, I will walk in the ſtrength of the Lord God; ſo they gave back, and came no farther.
