requite
verb (used with object)
to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
requited
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past participleof requite.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof requite.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
requiteverb (used with object)to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
Example Sentences
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They show us the way we try to escape an unsatisfying present through speculative fictions about how our suffering will eventually be redeemed through requited love or satisfying work or, failing those, God’s mercy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
But there's a parallel thread of romance... a story of unrequited love that slowly became very requited indeed.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2022
In high school, when I experienced crushes on my male classmates, I believed that the only way those feelings could be requited was if I altered my body.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2022
And you might know Venus and Hermes from ancient mythology, but have you been introduced to the more obscure figures Tacita, silent goddess of death, and Anteros, god of requited love?
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
For months they’d been coming here, four or five nights a week as the Voice requited.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
