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requite

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of requite

compensate, indemnify, recompense, recoup, remunerate, satisfy

Words Related to requite

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 of requite

avenge, redress, retaliate, revenge, venge [archaic]

Words Related to requite

castigate, fix, get, penalize, punish, scourge

chasten, chastise, correct, discipline

right

compensate, pay (back), recompense, repay

Phrases Synonymous with requite

get even (for)

Near Antonyms of requite

absolve, condone, excuse, forgive, pardon, remit

3 to make a return for

I fear my love for her will never be requited

Synonyms of requite

reciprocate, recompense, repay

Words Related to requite

exchange

compensate, indemnify, pay, recoup, remunerate, satisfy

give back, refund, reimburse, restitute

avenge, get back (at), retaliate, revenge

Near Antonyms of requite

owe

Synonym Discussion of requite

reciprocate, retaliate, requite, return mean to give back usually in kind or in quantity. reciprocate implies a mutual or equivalent exchange or a paying back of what one has received.