Quarry and Return

Quarry

Quarry noun - An animal that is hunted or killed.

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Return and quarry are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Return" instead a noun "Quarry".

Nearby Words: quarrying, quarried

Return noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.

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Quarry and return are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Quarry" instead a noun "Return".

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

old	old quarry	old return
full	full quarry	full return
long	long quarry	long return
entire	entire quarry	entire return
Other adjectives: main, spectacular, next, latest.

In The Pillars of the Earth, a monk tries to persuade a group of soldiers to allow workers to return to a quarry to cut stones for a cathedral.

Source: Cue the Sun
In return, when it is fully grown it rescues him from the collapsing quarry.

Source: Visual Novel / Yu No
Not only did he backstab the vampire hunter who had saved his life and feed him to his quarry in return for fame, he fully assists with the European vampires' coven and feeds aspiring starlets to them.

Source: Comic Book / American Vampire

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