Retribute

Quick meaning: Retribute is a verb meaning To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite.

Meaning

To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite.

Example Sentences

to retribute someone for their kindness

to retribute just punishment to a criminal

retribute to him, so far as calm reason and conscience dictate, what is proportionate to his transgression

Word Forms

• retributes
• retributing
• retributed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include return, repay, recompense, requite, restitute, yield.

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