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verb
- 1. make appropriate return for (a favour, service, or wrongdoing): formal "they are quick to requite a kindness" Similar
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REQUITE definition: 1. to give or do something in return for something given to you or done for you: 2. to give or do…. Learn more.
1. a. : to make return for : repay. b. : to make retaliation for : avenge. 2. : to make suitable return to for a benefit or service or for an injury. requiter noun. Did you know? You might be familiar with the phrase " unrequited love."
REQUITE meaning: 1. to give or do something in return for something given to you or done for you: 2. to give or do…. Learn more.
Requite means "to repay or return." To requite something is to return it. However, saying that you want to requite a gift means that you want to give something in return for it — not that you want to return the gift to the store for some quick cash.
Definition of requite verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
requite in American English. (rɪˈkwait) transitive verb Word forms: -quited, -quiting. 1. to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.) 2. to make retaliation for (a wrong, injury, etc.); avenge. 3. to make return to (a person, group, etc.) for service, benefits, etc.
/rəˈkwaɪt/ ruh-KWIGHT. /riˈkwaɪt/ ree-KWIGHT. See pronunciation. Where does the verb requite come from? Earliest known use. Middle English. The earliest known use of the verb requite is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for requite is from around 1440, in Morte Arthure.
1. a. To make return for (something done or felt) in a similar or appropriate fashion: "Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom" (Nathaniel Hawthorne). b. To avenge (an insult or wrongdoing). 2. a.
1. to make return or repayment for (a benefit, service, etc., or an injury, wrong, etc.) 2. to make return or repayment to for a benefit, injury, etc.; reward or retaliate against. 3. Rare. to give or do in return. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Aug 19, 2024 · Verb. [edit] requite (third-person singular simple present requites, present participle requiting, simple past and past participle requited) (transitive) To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
