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Definition of REQUITE

1

to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury <the company requited the employee who had fallen on the ice while leaving work by promptly paying all his medical bills, hoping that would stave off a lawsuit>

Synonyms indemnify, recompense, recoup, remunerate, requite, satisfy

Related Words refund, reimburse, repay; redress, remedy, repair; discharge, pay, quit

2

to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for <the future writer would later requite the abuse he suffered at the hands of his classmates by creating scathing portraits of them in his novels>

Synonyms redress, requite, retaliate, revenge, venge [archaic]

Related Words castigate, fix, get, penalize, punish, scourge; chasten, chastise, correct, discipline; right; compensate, pay (back), recompense, repay

Near Antonyms absolve, condone, excuse, forgive, pardon, remit

3

to make a return for <I fear my love for her will never be requited>

Synonyms recompense, repay, requite

Related Words exchange; compensate, indemnify, pay, recoup, remunerate, satisfy; give back, refund, reimburse, restitute; avenge, get back (at), retaliate, revenge

Near Antonyms owe