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requite verb [ rɪˈkwʌɪt ]

• make appropriate return for (a favour, service, or wrongdoing).
• "they are quick to requite a kindness"
Similar: avenge, exact revenge for, revenge, retaliate for, pay someone back for, get/have/take one's revenge, take reprisals, settle old scores, settle the score with someone, give tit for tat, get even, give as good as one gets, give like for like,
Origin: early 16th century: from re- ‘back’ + obsolete quite, variant of the verb quit1.


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