Synonyms for repay
riˈpeɪre·pay

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1. repay

   To repay or to retaliate, to punish or to reward, may be to make some return very inadequate to the benefit or injury received, or the right or wrong done; but to requite (according to its etymology) is to make so full and adequate a return as to quit oneself of all obligation of favor or hostility, of punishment or reward. Requite is often used in the more general sense of recompense or repay, but always with the suggestion, at least, of the original idea of full equivalent; when one speaks of requiting kindness with ingratitude, the expression gains force from the comparison of the actual with the proper and appropriate return. Compare PAY.

   Synonyms:
   avenge, compensate, pay, pay off, punish, quit, reciprocate, recompense, remunerate, requite, retaliate, return, revenge, reward, satisfy, settle with

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, excuse, forget, forgive, neglect, overlook, pardon, pardon, pass over, slight

   Preposition:
   To requite injury with injury is human, but not Christian.

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1. repay

   Synonyms:
   remunerate, reimburse, recompense, reward, retaliate, requiter, fund

   Antonyms:
   defraud, misappropriate, embezzle, waste, alienate, extort, confiscate, exact

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1. refund, return, repay, give backverb

   pay back

   "Please refund me my money"

   Synonyms:
   recall, take back, reward, devolve, deliver, pay back, riposte, retrovert, regress, revert, fall, refund, give, retort, bring back, generate, return, reelect, pass, yield, hark back, come back, render, requite, rejoin, give back, turn back

2. requite, repayverb

   make repayment for or return something

   Synonyms:
   return, requite, give back, pay back, come back, reward, refund, retort, riposte, rejoin

3. reward, repay, pay backverb

   act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions

   Synonyms:
   get, reinforce, pay back, riposte, honor, pay off, refund, retort, reward, fix, honour, return, requite, come back, rejoin, give back

4. retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoinverb

   answer back

   Synonyms:
   recall, take back, devolve, bring back, pay back, riposte, deliver, retrovert, regress, revert, fall, refund, give, retort, reward, generate, return, reelect, pass, yield, hark back, come back, render, requite, rejoin, give back, turn back

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1. repayverb

   Synonyms:
   refund, reimburse, pay back, restore

2. repayverb

   Synonyms:
   remunerate, compensate, reward, recompense, requite

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1. repayverb

   Synonyms:
   refund, restore, reimburse, recompense, requite, revenge, avenge, retaliate

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1. List of paraphrases for "repay":

   reimburse, refund, pay, amortize, rebate, depreciate, reimbursement, return

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1. Michael Poon:

   That is just unconstitutional, the law says you have to repay student loans. Biden is ignoring those laws, and he can’t do that.

2. Rajasthan Energy Minister Singh:

   We can't repay the interest and we still have these losses, every year we are losing more money.

3. Richard Ladkani:

   This is a vicious circle where people get more indebted, this one fisherman wound up owing the cartels $54,000 for 18 nets. He tried to get out, he finally came out and said there is no way I can repay the cartel. He was murdered.

4. Mike Duggan:

   We owe a debt of gratitude to all the officers out there working, and tonight we have an officer and a family with a debt that we can never repay. This entire city is holding the family in their hearts tonight. We will be with them every step of the way.

5. Elliott Abrams:

   We have made the argument, unsuccessfully to date, to both Russia and China that they are not helping themselves, if they are concerned ... about the recovery of money they have lent or invested, a bankrupt Venezuelan economy will never be able to repay those amounts, only a Venezuela in recovery will be able to do so.