Repay
[riː'peɪ;rɪ-] or [ri'pɛi]
Definition
(v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
(v. t.) To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.
(v. t.) To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.
Inputed by Lennon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Refund, reimburse, pay back, restore.[2]. Remunerate, compensate, reward, recompense, requite.
Inputed by Lawrence
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Remunerate, reimburse, recompense, reward, retaliate, requite, {[r]?}, fund
ANT:Defraud, misappropriate, embezzle, waste, alienate, extort, confiscate, exact
Editor: Will
Definition
v.t. to pay back: to make return for: to recompense: to pay again or a second time.—v.i. to requite.—adj. Repay′able that is to be repaid: due as a bill due in thirty days.—n. Repay′ment act of repaying: the money or thing repaid.
Checker: Millicent
Examples
- Then one day Faust asked Gutenberg blankly when he intended to repay him the money he had advanced. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This is how you repay the trust which we have reposed in you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- How shall I ever repay you? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- If he advances the tax, therefore, the buyer must generally repay it to him. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The wording of Rousseau will repay careful study. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Now I may be unfortunate, and so lose what I cannot replace or repay. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Can I in no way repay your confidence? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- By her grateful attention to me and mine, she has long since well repaid any little kindness I ever had it in my power to offer her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The kindness, the unceasing kindness of Mrs. Jennings, I had repaid with ungrateful contempt. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I suppressed my indignation; but I showed her that her intention was not lost upon me, and I repaid her annoyance by affecting humility. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I am already repaid, he said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I hope your anxiety has been repaid, observed Maurice, with a smile. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But the child who had done so much for him and had been so poorly repaid, was never out of his mind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He repaid this spirit of kindness with the fondest gratitude, and made her the treasure-house of all his hopes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But this sum of gold, said Ivanhoe, gravely, my honour is concerned in repaying it to your father. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have already had. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She repays me twenty-thousandfold, and twenty more to that, every hour in every day! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He repays your expense in him, Casaubon, he went on, nodding encouragingly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now he repays me by this robbery! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was an immediate outlay, but it repays me in the saving of coal. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The town repays this supply, by sending back a part of the manufactured produce to the inhabitants of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Checker: Rudolph