Synonyms for repay
riˈpeɪre·pay

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1. repay

   To repay or to retaliate, to punish or to reward, may be to make some return very inadequate to the benefit or injury received, or the right or wrong done; but to requite (according to its etymology) is to make so full and adequate a return as to quit oneself of all obligation of favor or hostility, of punishment or reward. Requite is often used in the more general sense of recompense or repay, but always with the suggestion, at least, of the original idea of full equivalent; when one speaks of requiting kindness with ingratitude, the expression gains force from the comparison of the actual with the proper and appropriate return. Compare PAY.

   Synonyms:
   avenge, compensate, pay, pay off, punish, quit, reciprocate, recompense, remunerate, requite, retaliate, return, revenge, reward, satisfy, settle with

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, excuse, forget, forgive, neglect, overlook, pardon, pardon, pass over, slight

   Preposition:
   To requite injury with injury is human, but not Christian.

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1. repay

   Synonyms:
   remunerate, reimburse, recompense, reward, retaliate, requiter, fund

   Antonyms:
   defraud, misappropriate, embezzle, waste, alienate, extort, confiscate, exact

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1. refund, return, repay, give backverb

   pay back

   "Please refund me my money"

   Synonyms:
   recall, take back, reward, devolve, deliver, pay back, riposte, retrovert, regress, revert, fall, refund, give, retort, bring back, generate, return, reelect, pass, yield, hark back, come back, render, requite, rejoin, give back, turn back

2. requite, repayverb

   make repayment for or return something

   Synonyms:
   return, requite, give back, pay back, come back, reward, refund, retort, riposte, rejoin

3. reward, repay, pay backverb

   act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions

   Synonyms:
   get, reinforce, pay back, riposte, honor, pay off, refund, retort, reward, fix, honour, return, requite, come back, rejoin, give back

4. retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoinverb

   answer back

   Synonyms:
   recall, take back, devolve, bring back, pay back, riposte, deliver, retrovert, regress, revert, fall, refund, give, retort, reward, generate, return, reelect, pass, yield, hark back, come back, render, requite, rejoin, give back, turn back

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1. • Act
   • Answer
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1. repayverb

   Synonyms:
   refund, reimburse, pay back, restore

2. repayverb

   Synonyms:
   remunerate, compensate, reward, recompense, requite

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1. repayverb

   Synonyms:
   refund, restore, reimburse, recompense, requite, revenge, avenge, retaliate

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1. List of paraphrases for "repay":

   reimburse, refund, pay, amortize, rebate, depreciate, reimbursement, return

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1. Carlos Jr.:

   The pain is the same, different circumstances, but the pain is still there, i could never repay them for the amount of love, support and information that they've given me.

2. Proverb:

   If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat.

3. Vijay Mallya:

   I think the overriding consideration that everybody seems to be missing is that I have put $2 billion worth of assets in front of the Karnataka high court which is more than sufficient to repay the banks and indeed everybody else, so the question of attaching assets either in the UK or whatever should not arise.

4. Michael Slingsby:

   People borrow money from lenders and in order to repay their debts children are being sent out to work.

5. Roger Stanton:

   What Mr. Dennis may have thought was a nickel and dime theft was, in the end, the equivalent of a major bank heist, now, he will be a convicted felon who must repay all the stolen money.