Invent and Return

Invent

Invent verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.

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Return and invent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Return" instead a verb "Invent".

Return verb - To bring, send, or put back to a former or proper place.

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Invent and return are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Invent" instead a verb "Return".

Nearby Words: returned, returning, returnable, returnee, returner

fire	invent fire	return fire
life	invent life	return life
stuff	invent stuff	return stuff
way	invent way	return way
Other words: world, machine, items, gun.

Dean Koontz averted some time travel issues in Lightning by virtue of having the Nazis invent time travel, the limitation being that it can only send you forward (and then you snap back to your point of origin when you make the return trip).

Source: Timey-Wimey Ball
Following the return of Captain America in the 1960s, his appearances through the mid-'50s were RetConned into tribute heroes—the Spirit of '76, the Patriot, and a nameless history professor who went so far as to re-invent the supersoldier formula and get plastic surgery to look like Steve Rogers.

Source: Costume Copycat
Neologizer: Robin's brothers from The Fairy's Return invent new words all the time, and their father thinks they're very clever for it.

Source: Literature / The Princess Tales

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