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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>— see compensate 1
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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>— see avenge
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