Thesaurus
requite
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of REQUITE
1
to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury <the company requited the employee who had fallen on the ice while leaving work by promptly paying all his medical bills, hoping that would stave off a lawsuit>
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to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for <the future writer would later requite the abuse he suffered at the hands of his classmates by creating scathing portraits of them in his novels>
Related Words castigate, fix, get, penalize, punish, scourge; chasten, chastise, correct, discipline; right; compensate, pay (back), recompense, repay
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