requite
verb (used with object)
to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
requites
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present tense formof requite (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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And so to be even with Tisaphernes, he requites his perjury by a fair stratagem.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
"One that hardly requites me for my patience in hearing it out."
From The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Marjorie Douie
O Brakenbury, I have done those things, Which now bear evidence against my soul, For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
He that a greater biter bites, His folly on himself requites, 516 As we shall manifest forthwith.—
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
Though in my Firmament thou wilt not shine Talk not, my Lord, of unrequited love, Since love requites itself most royally.
From Last Poems by Laurence Hope
