pay back

verb
/peɪ bæk/

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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