Antonyms for requite

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ri-kwahyt

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈkwaɪt

Definition of requite

Origin : c.1400, "repay" (for good or ill), from re- "back" + Middle English quite "clear, pay up," earlier variant of quit (see quit). Related: Requited; requiting.

verb compensate, give in return

Example sentences :

Have you grown sleek and fat and smug in my service that you should requite me thus?
Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini

Well then, do they requite your gifts of gold with gratitude?
Extract from : « The Symposium » by Xenophon

If they kill us, how can we requite them for our obligations?
Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham

There's many a coinage costlier than ever the mint fashioned; he may requite me thus.
Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever

He had aroused her passion and no amount of long-distance love could requite it.
Extract from : « The Perfectionists » by Arnold Castle

It shall go hard but I will requite her kindness one time or other.
Extract from : « Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote » by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In return, I did what I could to requite her, and my good will was not overlooked.
Extract from : « The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 » by Various

Too great eagerness to requite an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Extract from : « Classic French Course in English » by William Cleaver Wilkinson

Isabel had loved her then; and now, how was she about to requite her?
Extract from : « April's Lady » by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

I was praying for the happiness of your future years—praying that I might requite your love.
Extract from : « Eugene Aram, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Synonyms for requite

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