REPAY (repaid)

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Irregular inflected form: repaid   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does repay mean? 

• REPAY (verb)
  The verb REPAY has 4 senses:

1. pay back

2. make repayment for or return something

3. act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions

4. answer back

  Familiarity information: REPAY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPAY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they repay    ... he / she / it repays   
Past simple: repaid   
Past participle: repaid   
-ing form: repaying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pay back

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

give back; refund; repay; return

Context example:

Please refund me my money

Hypernyms (to "repay" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repay"):

reimburse (pay back for some expense incurred)

restitute; restore (give or bring back)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence examples:

They repay the money to them
They repay them the money

Derivation:

repayment (the act of returning money received previously)

repayment (payment of a debt or obligation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make repayment for or return something

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

repay; requite

Hypernyms (to "repay" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repay"):

pay (make a compensation for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

repayment (the act of returning money received previously)

repayment (payment of a debt or obligation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

pay back; repay; reward

Hypernyms (to "repay" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Answer back

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

come back; rejoin; repay; retort; return; riposte

Hypernyms (to "repay" is one way to...):

answer; reply; respond (react verbally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

You might be applying for student loans or a scholarship or setting up a plan to repay your student loans.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“So!” said I. “This is how you repay the trust which we have reposed in you. You will leave my service to-morrow.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Really, Mr. Holmes, said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them from the cellar, I do not know how the bank can thank you or repay you.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How shall I ever repay you?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Is there anything we can do," it asked, "to repay you for saving the life of our Queen?"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

How is half such a sum to be repaid?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

To repay my confidence with systematic deception, for her sake, and quit me for her!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Ten per cent., and double to be repaid when de Royal pappa die.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He knew his friend had always plenty of money, and he knew also, with profound certitude, that his success would enable him to repay it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So on he jogged, and all seemed now to go right with him: he had met with some misfortunes, to be sure; but he was now well repaid for all.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)