requited

past tense of requite
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as in compensated
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 avenged
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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Recent Examples of requited 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
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Verb
  • On Tuesday, lawmakers approved every change except one dealing with how municipalities will be compensated for tax breaks.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
  • Are the owners of those medallions to be fully compensated for the current and future value of the medallions, which is several hundred thousand dollars each?
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 July 2026
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  • In gender, Columbus' men avenged an earlier season loss and cruised to an 11-6 win to sweep gender doubles.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • Egor Demin scored 22 points to lead six players in double figures for the Nets (2-1), who avenged a 79-76 loss to the Kings on Day 1 of the California Classic in Sacramento.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • The previously unreported $39,727 loan was approved in June 2020 — the same month Polymarket entered its beta phase — and repaid in July 2021, according to Small Business Administration data.
    Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 24 July 2026
  • The tragic consequences of gross violations of xenia are perhaps best illustrated by the Trojan prince Paris, who repaid the hospitality of the Spartan king Menelaus by eloping with Menelaus’s wife, Helen, thus triggering the Trojan War.
    Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • The court denied Cher's request to be fully reimbursed for her legal fees.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 23 July 2026
  • In 2022, analysis found that 64% of public school students were direct certified, which means that the federal government fully reimbursed all student meals in the district for four years.
    Austin Horn July 22, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
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  • Kuwait is known to be overwhelmingly dependent on desalination for drinking water, with almost 90% of the arid nation’s water demand satisfied through seawater desalination plants.
    Michael Wayland,Azhar Sukri,Terri Cullen, CNBC, 18 July 2026
  • The bánh cuốn đặc biệt — a combination plate with plain steamed rice sheets, sheets stuffed with ground pork and mushroom and pieces filled with shrimp — satisfied my internet FOMO cravings.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026

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“Requited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requited. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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