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# requite

«requite» in Mova's school dictionary: **to pay them back for good or bad that they have done to you** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (requites, requited, requiting); old use

### meaning for a pupil

To requite someone is to pay them back for good or bad that they have done to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/requite/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, a hero repays a kindness or a wrong

### examples

- I will requite your kindness one day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/requite/#x1)
- The king requited the boy with gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/requite/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.316/)
- [If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.70/)
- [But Thou, O LORD, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.684/)
- [He will requite the evil unto them that lie in wait for me; destroy Thou them in Thy truth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.888/)
- [He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor requited us according to our iniquities.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1810/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «requite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/requite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.