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requite
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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
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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
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to make a return for
- I fear my love for her will never be requited
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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.
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- reciprocated their hospitality by inviting them for a visit
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- the enemy retaliated by executing their prisoners
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- requited her love with cold indifference
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- returned their call
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- return good for evil
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