REQUITED Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

requited

verb

past tense of requite

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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Relevance

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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as in repaid

to make a return for I fear my love for her will never be requited

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owed

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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

But in his third and rockiest year at the helm of the Trojans, Riley was still compensated like one of the kings of the sport.

— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
Many student athletes are being compensated for their participation with anywhere from tens of thousands of dollars per year to in some cases, a million or more.

— Dr. J. Lee Peters, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2026