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
  • The official says authorities compensated residents for their land in 1957 after it was seized to build the capital city, Islamabad.
    Diaa Hadid, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026
  • These employees will be partially compensated with stock options tied to milestones at the facility.
    Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 1 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
  • The total value of the travel reimbursed by the AKA is unclear, and neither McCurdy nor the association responded to questions about how much was spent.
    Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Street Department Superintendent John Schnadenberg said the hope is the town will be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the extra expenses incurred due to the storm cleanup.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 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 8 Sep. 2026.

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