repay
verb (used with object)
to pay back or refund, as money.
am repaying
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present progressiveof repay (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Do not think, because I leave her alone, that I am repaying her coldness in the same coin.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
"That was good of you, though I do not know that I am repaying the goodness properly," he said, with another smile, very wistful this time.
From A Houseful of Girls by Sarah Tytler
I but want to show thee how I am repaying thee for thy sufferings here.
From The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle
In a very small way I am repaying to you in kind—an item which I made, myself, and which I know that some spacemen use inside their Archers.
From The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun
