repay
verb (used with object)
to pay back or refund, as money.
Example Sentences
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At 40, Baudelaire was a shadow of his former self, crushed by unrepayable debts, suffering the aftereffects of a seemingly minor stroke, and facing the onset of syphilitic debility.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
But from the perspective of the students caught up in the explosion of unrepayable law school debt, the shake-up at the school, and others like it, look rather pedestrian.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2016
It doesn’t make you a bad person and it doesn’t burden you with an unrepayable debt.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2015
What Abedi got in return for such loans was de facto ownership of three American banks, since he held their shares as collateral for the unrepayable loans.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had taken care of him and waited on him as she now did her mother, and she had woven him too into her invisible net of guilt and unrepayable debts of gratitude.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
