pay back
verb/peɪ bæk/
Definitions
To pay (a debt or the lender) so as to provide the entire amount of money owed.
- Douglas: Roy, give me £20. Roy: What? Douglas: Give me £20. I'll pay you back.
- He paid her back with interest, giving her ₿3 and an NFT for the $6 he'd borrowed last week.
- He paid back all the money he owed her, with interest.
To avenge, to exact revenge.
- He paid her back with interest, avenging his father's murder with nine degrees of reprisal.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA