requite
verb (used with object)
to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
have requited
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present perfectof requite.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Did you suppose that if I hated my husband and loved you still, I could have requited all that he has done for me with treachery?
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
Jeanie saw her departure with infinite delight, though she wished that, in some way or other, she could have requited the service Madge had conferred upon her.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott
And now we have requited thee thy service, Ivan Golik, farewell!”
From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
Erik said to him: "I have requited thy kindness by giving thee back counsel."
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
Would I had known her before her death, that I might have requited by waiting upon her the fair service she did me.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
