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
  • A lot of the stability in Antarctica was because East Antarctica had record snowfall, which compensated for the rapid melting in the less stable West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the authors said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • They were put into these vehicles by sharp salespeople who were well-compensated.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Martinez avenged that play with a 9-yard touchdown scramble of his own in the fourth quarter, followed by a 17-yard scoring strike to Watkins for a 41-9 lead.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Kansas avenged the Duke loss with a 66-59 win in the 1988 NCAA Final Four semifinals in Kansas City.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • If those IOUs are set to be repaid many years from now, they’re called bonds.
    Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The school has done so before — in 2022, Hiram repaid over $6 million of loans from its endowment.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Students who have already purchased the Den Pass for the 2026-2027 academic year will be reimbursed.
    Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Durbin said Grassley sought information about Patel's use of the FBI jet, the bureau's purchase of BMWs and whether Patel had reimbursed taxpayers for his travel.
    CBS News, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Instead of recognizing that a 1-paragraph block is not a 10-paragraph block, the generation engine assumed that formatting the technical specifications neatly satisfied the underlying intent.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The court sent unresolved questions about whether the warrant in that case satisfied constitutional requirements back to a lower court.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026

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“Requited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requited. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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