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render back

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ren·der

1[ren-der]
verb (used with object)
1.
to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
2.
to do; perform: to render a service.
3.
to furnish; provide: to render aid.
4.
to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).
5.
to present for consideration, approval, payment, action, etc., as an account.
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6.
to return; to make (a payment in money, kind, or service) as by a tenant to a superior: knights rendering military service to the lord.
7.
to pay as due (a tax, tribute, etc.).
8.
to deliver formally or officially; hand down: to render a verdict.
9.
to translate into another language: to render French poems into English.
10.
to represent; depict, as in painting: to render a landscape.
11.
to represent (a perspective view of a projected building) in drawing or painting.
12.
to bring out the meaning of by performance or execution; interpret, as a part in a drama or a piece of music.
13.
to give in return or requital: to render good for evil.
14.
to give back; restore (often followed by back).
15.
to give up; surrender.
16.
Building Trades. to cover (masonry) with a first coat of plaster.
17.
to melt down; extract the impurities from by melting: to render fat.
18.
to process, as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses.
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verb (used without object)
19.
to provide due reward.
20.
to try out oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.

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Render back is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
noun
21.
Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English rendren < Middle French rendre < Vulgar Latin *rendere, alteration (formed by analogy with prendere to take) of Latin reddere to give back, equivalent to red- red- + -dere, combining form of dare to give

ren·der·a·ble, adjective
ren·der·er, noun
un·ren·der·a·ble, adjective
un·ren·dered, adjective
well-ren·dered, adjective


3. give, supply, contribute, afford. 4. demonstrate. 15. cede, yield.

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Word Origin & History

render
early 14c., "to repeat," from O.Fr. rendre "give back, present, yield," from V.L. *rendere (formed on analogy of its antonym, prendre "to take"), from L. reddere "give back, return, restore," from re- "back" + comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (1)). Meaning "hand over,
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deliver" is recorded from late 14c.; "to return (thanks, etc.)" is attested from late 15c.; meaning "represent, depict" is first attested 1599. Rendering "extracting or melting of fat" is attested from 1792; sense of "reproduction, representation" is from 1862.
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