Word Meanings - REPAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums. Shak. 2. To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness;

Additional info about word: REPAY

1. To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums. Shak. 2. To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection. Rambler. 3. To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt. Syn. -- To refund; restore; return; recompense; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; reimburse; requite.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPAY)

• Recompense
• Requite
• remunerate
• reward
• indemnify
• satisfy
• repay
• reimburse
• compensate
• Refund
• Repay
• return
• restore
• pay back
• Reimburse
• Remunerate
• Reward
• recompense
• requite
• retaliate
• punish
• avenge
• revenge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REPAY)

• Punish
• misrequite

Related words: (words related to REPAY)

• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• RETALIATE
  To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated. Sir T. Herbert. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon
• REIMBURSEMENT
  The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
• AVENGERESS
  A female avenger. Spenser.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• RESTORE
  To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• REWARDLESS
  Having, or affording, no reward.
• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• INDEMNIFY
  1. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple. 2. To make restitution or compensation for, as for
• AVENGEMENT
  The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. Milton.
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• AVENGER
  1. One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood. 2. One who takes vengeance. Milton.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;