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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Such was my anger, these my hate and slights, Than all which others could bestow more sweet; Evil for good I meet, If thus ingratitude my grace requites.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
Fortune requites my Sufferings With too large a share of Happiness.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers
Then she asked, 'O Wardan, is this how thou requites me my favours?'
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
His hatred of Raleigh—which, as we shall see hereafter, Raleigh not only bears patiently, but requites with good deeds as long as he can— springs, by his own confession, simply from envy and disappointed vanity.
From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
What thrift requites good service, I'll show you well to-day.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
