HOW TO PRONOUNCE
requite
/ɹəˈkwaɪt/
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What does requite mean?
verb
- To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
- To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
- To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).
More meanings (11)
verb
- To do or give a thing in return for (something).
- To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to avenge.
- To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).
- To recompense, to repay.
- To retaliate, to seek revenge.
- (obsolete) To greet (someone) in return.
- (obsolete) To make up for (something); to compensate.
- (obsolete) To respond to (a question, a statement, etc.).
- (obsolete) To take the place of (someone or something); to replace.
- (obsolete) Of an action, a quality, etc.: to be a reward for (itself).
noun
- Chiefly in the form in requite for or of: synonym of requital (“compensation for damage or loss; return in kind, recompense, repayment, reward”).
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹəˈkwaɪt/
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“Trust me, I will requite the risk you run for my love, Gurth,” said the Knight.
If he would despise me, I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I shall never requite him.
More book examples (3)
“I thank you, and can but requite your good deeds with my prayers.”
Dreams of the sea, prognosticate unfulfilled anticipations, while pleasures of a material form are enjoyed, there is an inward craving for pleasure that flesh cannot requite.
After this well chosen introduction, he expatiated with much eloquence upon the merits of the army and the general, and the ingratitude with which the Emperor was accustomed to requite them.