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as in to compensate
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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as in to avenge
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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as in to repay
to make a return for
I fear my love for her will never be requited
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Recent Examples of requite
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.
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Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
10 Aug. 2025
The individuals are putting money to work furiously, in individual stocks, demonstrating faith not in Trump, but in business, and it is being requited and will continue to be requited with higher stock prices.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
13 July 2025
Reflecting Lee’s turmoil as he’s tormented by heroin withdrawals and his not entirely requited affection for Allerton, the film is moody, and the sets reflect the interior landscapes of its characters.
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Rachel Davies,
Architectural Digest,
16 Dec. 2024
In the book, the main character falls in love with an android that only pretends to requite his feelings.
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IEEE Spectrum,
22 Mar. 2023
But his love wasn’t always requited.
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Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2023
Looks like the love Taylor Swift has for Grey’s Anatomy is fully requited!
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Starr Bowenbank,
Billboard,
15 Feb. 2023
An intensity which can be called religious characterizes the devotion shown to their community by literally millions of people who routinely sacrifice — time, money, labor — to remark that devotion; and, using their own language, methods, and skills, to requite the community.
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William F. Buckley Jr.,
National Review,
26 Nov. 2020
There’s a lot to requite my love.
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Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
18 Aug. 2020
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
10 Aug. 2025
The individuals are putting money to work furiously, in individual stocks, demonstrating faith not in Trump, but in business, and it is being requited and will continue to be requited with higher stock prices.
—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
13 July 2025
Reflecting Lee’s turmoil as he’s tormented by heroin withdrawals and his not entirely requited affection for Allerton, the film is moody, and the sets reflect the interior landscapes of its characters.
—
Rachel Davies,
Architectural Digest,
16 Dec. 2024
In the book, the main character falls in love with an android that only pretends to requite his feelings.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Mar. 2023
But his love wasn’t always requited.
—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2023
Looks like the love Taylor Swift has for Grey’s Anatomy is fully requited!
—
Starr Bowenbank,
Billboard,
15 Feb. 2023
An intensity which can be called religious characterizes the devotion shown to their community by literally millions of people who routinely sacrifice — time, money, labor — to remark that devotion; and, using their own language, methods, and skills, to requite the community.
—
William F. Buckley Jr.,
National Review,
26 Nov. 2020
There’s a lot to requite my love.
—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
18 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for requite
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Powell’s release comes nearly one year into Georgia’s new system to compensate the wrongfully convicted.
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When fibroblasts were lost, the ones that remained appeared to compensate.
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Bastard son Alyn of Hull (Abubakar Salim), the undisputed MVP of this battle, jumped to battle Sharako and avenge his father.
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Miles will return to the Metroplex when the Lynx play the Dallas Wings — who will be looking to avenge their 100-76 loss earlier in the season — on Sunday, June 28 at College Park Center.
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The development came as the district is working to close an unprecedented $170 million deficit and avoid state receivership, which would place the district under strict oversight while any emergency loan and interest are repaid.
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Who Is Actually Behind The Machine Names matter in a prospectus, and the names here repay a careful look.
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Los Angeles officials have reached a tentative agreement with organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games laying out the process for reimbursing the city for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in public services.
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Utilization, on the other hand, shows what percentage of eligible expenses are being reimbursed—a far more meaningful metric.
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But there is a wide variety of products that address different skin concerns, from peptide serums for wrinkles to satisfying face masks to deeply hydrated skin.
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Treating this as a binary choice means optimizing for one group at the expense of the other, which tends to produce policies that satisfy neither.
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“Requite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requite. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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