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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for requited
Verb
  • His largely disappointing tenure ended when the Clippers had to forfeit five first-round draft picks and were fined $30 million for circumventing salary cap rules in regard to how Leonard was compensated.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Some 35,000 plaintiffs were compensated after complaining of personal injury and property damage to their homes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
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  • Commerce has avenged four 2025 losses (East Jackson, Elbert County, Oglethorpe County, Rabun County), the most of any GHSA school this season.
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Both teams are in a similar boat as SEC contenders that have avenged an early season conference loss.
    — PJ Green October 12, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The bonds would be repaid through borrowers' mortgage payments.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The insurance company covering the promotion must have had a fright because there were 381 purchases worth more than $450,000 that had to be repaid, as The Star reported at the time.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Families are reimbursed for the cost of 15 hours of preschool per week, which amounts to more than $6,000 per year.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Before his sentencing, Lum paid full restitution to the museum and reimbursed $500,000 of its legal and investigative fees.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • This fall’s cases show what happens when those systems misfire in the middle of an election, and why Meta’s explanations have satisfied few affected people.
    — Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Hays' efforts to find a solution to the controversy satisfied neither civil right activists nor intransigent segregationists.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026

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“Requited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requited. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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