to requite

Examples

• All

• Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.

  Henry V (1989)

• I will requite thee, taming my wild heart to thy loving hand.

  Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

• God will requite you for your kindness, sir.

  Lady Jane (1986)

• I will requite your love, so fare you well.

  Hamlet (1948)

• Open your heart to the Lord and he will requite all your doings with his love.

  Colonia (2015)

• My dukedom since you have given me again, I will requite you with as good a thing;

  Prospero's Books (1991)

• Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!

  Blog text (10)

• "Seduction requites subtlety."

  Fiction book (1999)

• Titus Andronicus, for thy favors done to us in our election this day, I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts... and will with deeds requite thy gentleness.

  Titus (1999)

• I will requite your kindness by helping you with your project.

Synonyms

R

to repay

vsto requite

89 2.7

To give something in return for help or kindness

is wider, also covering emotional returns like love or injury

R

to return the favor

vsto requite

• Informal

57 2.9

Do something helpful for someone who helped you

is broader, used for emotional or formal responses beyond helpful acts

R

to reciprocate

vsto requite

29 6.2

Do something similar in return when someone helps or is kind to you

is about any return, not only matching acts or feelings

R

to recompense

vsto requite

1 7.4

To pay someone for loss, harm, or effort

is more general, applying to favors, feelings, or injuries

How Reciprocal

to avenge

95 4.9

to requite

• Formal

3 9.9

to repay

89 2.7

to acknowledge

72 3.5

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology