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requite

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re·quite  (r-kwt)
tr.v. re·quit·ed, re·quit·ing, re·quites
1. To make repayment or return for: requite another's love. See Synonyms at reciprocate.
2. To avenge.
[Middle English requiten : re-, re- + quiten, to pay; see quit.]
re·quita·ble adj.
re·quiter n.
requite
Verb
[-quiting, -quited] to return to someone (the same treatment or feeling as received): an Australian who requites her love [re- back + obsolete quite to repay]
requital n
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Verb1.requite - make repayment for or return something
repay
give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care"
pay - make a compensation for; "a favor that cannot be paid back"
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I beg that you will set me free, and I will some day requite your kindness.
Fables by Aesop View in context
To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country: we never parted while I was there; I called her my GLUMDALCLITCH, or little nurse; and should be guilty of great ingratitude, if I omitted this honourable mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the innocent, but unhappy instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
Must I then be untrue to my past history; recoil before obstacles that are not serious; requite with cowardly hesitation what both the English Government and the Royal Society of London have done for me?
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
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