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
  • As creators take on political topics, questions often surface about whether influencers are being compensated.
    — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • This decrease in state funds was compensated for in 2026 by an additional $53 million in research awards from industry partners.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The victory was also payback for West Boca (3-0), which avenged last season’s 26-20 overtime loss to Newman.
    — Gary Curreri, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The only other times there was a Week 1 Super Bowl rematch came in 2016 when defending champion Denver beat Carolina 21-20 and in the first year of the merger when Minnesota avenged a loss to Kansas City with a 27-10 victory in 1970.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • As post-Covid debts mature, a record share of poor countries net-repaid the IMF in 2026 – a drain set to widen by 2030.
    — Masood Ahmed, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Some women even took out personal loans after Love promised they would quickly be repaid, the affidavit says.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The prescriptions were often billed to and reimbursed by Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs, the lawsuit says.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • A little under $700,000 was improperly reimbursed because those dollars went towards visits to an escape room, restaurants, bars, a strip club and a gym, according to investigators.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Fans of the genre will be satisfied by the whodunit – the question of how something happened and the mysterious nature of it.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Jil Sander was a perfect distillation of itself and satisfied a modernist appetite.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026

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“Requited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requited. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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