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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
  • Students who have already purchased the Den Pass for the 2026-2027 academic year will be reimbursed.
    — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Durbin said Grassley sought information about Patel's use of the FBI jet, the bureau's purchase of BMWs and whether Patel had reimbursed taxpayers for his travel.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of reimbursed
Verb
  • On services, the EU made its best-ever offer to any trading partner, opening 144 subsectors to Indian firms, and India reciprocated by opening 102 to European companies.
    — JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of reciprocated
Verb
  • He was released from the Rio Grande detention center on August 28 after his family paid a $20,000 bond.
    — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Sixty years after television audiences first tuned in to see the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, an astronaut on board the International Space Station has paid tribute to Star Trek by flying the badge of the franchise’s latest fictional captain.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of paid
Verb
  • McConnell exchanged passes with Mac Allister before progressing the ball forward to Ngumoha.
    — Andy Jones, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Americans in the 1960s knew Francis Gary Powers as the CIA pilot of a secret U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over Soviet Russia, who was exchanged in a prisoner swap in 1962, during the peak of the Cold War.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 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
  • A lot of the stability in Antarctica was because East Antarctica had record snowfall, which compensated for the rapid melting in the less stable West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the authors said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • They were put into these vehicles by sharp salespeople who were well-compensated.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 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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