Requite

Quick meaning: Requite is a verb meaning To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.).

Meaning

To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.).

More Meanings

1. To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
2. To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).
3. To do or give a thing in return for (something).
4. To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to avenge.
5. To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).
6. To greet (someone) in return.
7. To make up for (something); to compensate.

Example Sentences

[T]hey requited Chriſts paſſion, and died for him vvho ſuffered for them.

Sir I am ſo poore to requite you, you muſt looke for nothing but thankes of me, […]

This place, to vvhich Ariſtotle ovv'd his birth, he aftervvards requited vvith extraordinary gratitude.

Good cryptographists are rare indeed; and thus their services, although seldom required, are necessarily well requited.

Word Forms

• requites
• requiting
• requited
• requitest
• requitedst
• requiteth
• requit

Synonyms for requite

Depending on context, synonyms include avenge, retaliate, repay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include repay, reacquite, requench, take, renecessitate, return.

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