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adjective

as in liquidated

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verb

past tense of repay
1
as in reimbursed
to make a return payment to I repaid my friend the $20 he had lent me

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2
as in reciprocated
to make a return for how can we ever repay your kindness?

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Recent Examples of repaid
Verb
If those IOUs are set to be repaid many years from now, they’re called bonds. — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 The school has done so before — in 2022, Hiram repaid over $6 million of loans from its endowment. — Bloomberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026 Pell grants, which generally do not have to be repaid, are a key to affording higher education for many lower-income students. — ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026 The Sacramento City Teachers Association President Nikki Milevsky echoed Singh’s position, saying the trust’s funds do not have to be repaid. — Chaewon Chung updated August 27, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Federal Pell Grants aren’t loans and rarely need to be repaid. — Amy Deyoung, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 However, that sum generally must be repaid before any additional emergency withdrawals are made within the following three years. — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026 Roberto Martinez, who has since stepped down as head coach, put his faith in Ronaldo throughout and it was not repaid. — Cerys Jones, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026 While founders retain full ownership and operational control, the relationship with the lender ends once the loan is repaid. — Richard Ceffalio, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repaid
  1. cleared
  2. reimbursed
  3. reciprocated
  4. paid
  5. exchanged
  6. satisfied
  7. compensated
  8. requited
Adjective
  • Not all pads are alike, but a footprint on the larger side involves five to ten acres of cleared, packed ground that serves as the hub for drilling equipment, which can include wellheads, pump jacks, tanks, wastewater storage pits, trailers, and flare stacks.
    — Alex Heard, Outside, 4 Mar. 2026
  • What counts as a cleared sidewalk?
    — Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 1 Dec. 2025
Definition of cleared
Verb
  • The total value of the travel reimbursed by the AKA is unclear, and neither McCurdy nor the association responded to questions about how much was spent.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Street Department Superintendent John Schnadenberg said the hope is the town will be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the extra expenses incurred due to the storm cleanup.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of reimbursed
Verb
  • Nothing has swirled more than appreciation — a sentiment Royals fans reciprocated on Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium with a pre-game ceremony in Perez’s honor for the record-breaker that once would have seemed preposterous.
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Gausman and his family fell in love with Toronto, a city that reciprocated.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Definition of reciprocated
Verb
  • For sponsored products ads, the FTC alleges advertisers paid their full winning bid about 80% of the time in 2024.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • His Know Your Rights Camp has helped pay for 150 independent autopsies — such as the one for Nolan Wells this year — and has also paid hundreds of thousands in legal grants and bail relief.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of paid
Verb
  • The couple exchanged vows during a small New York ceremony in July 2025.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy exchanged threats late Tuesday over what their next steps might be.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of exchanged
Verb
  • Instead of recognizing that a 1-paragraph block is not a 10-paragraph block, the generation engine assumed that formatting the technical specifications neatly satisfied the underlying intent.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The court sent unresolved questions about whether the warrant in that case satisfied constitutional requirements back to a lower court.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of satisfied
Verb
  • The official says authorities compensated residents for their land in 1957 after it was seized to build the capital city, Islamabad.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026
  • These employees will be partially compensated with stock options tied to milestones at the facility.
    — Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of compensated
Verb
  • But after years of wooing Silicon Valley, the Defense Department’s interest became requited, with companies like Amazon seeing opportunities to replace the government’s hodge-podge data centers with cloud computing, for which the Pentagon was offering a $10 billion contract prize in 2019.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025
Definition of requited

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“Repaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repaid. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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