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Repay

//ɹiˈpeɪ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Synonym of pay back in all senses.

    "I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college."

  2. 2
    To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.
  3. 3
    answer back wordnet
  4. 4
    To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off. transitive

    "The possible importance of excessive androgen secretion and the ingestion of agents such as the fluorenamines may repay further investigation."

  5. 5
    pay back wordnet
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  1. 6
    To give in return; requite. transitive
  2. 7
    make repayment for or return something wordnet
  3. 8
    act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions wordnet

Etymology

From Old French repaier (“to pay back”), from re- + paiier (“to pay”), from Latin pācāre (“to settle, to make peaceful”), from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (forming verbs). Equivalent to re- + pay. Cognate with repacify and French repayer (“to pay again”).

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