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repay

verb
/ɹiˈpeɪ/

Etymology

From Old French repaier (“to pay back”), from re- + paiier (“to pay”), from Latin pācāre (“to settle, to make peaceful”), from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (forming verbs). Equivalent to re- + pay. Cognate with repacify and French repayer (“to pay again”).

  1. derived from paco

Definitions

  1. Synonym of pay back in all senses.

    • I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.
    • I'll repay this wrong asap.
    • But drops of Grief can ne’re repay / The debt of Love I owe, […]

  2. To make worthwhile

    To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off.

    • The possible importance of excessive androgen secretion and the ingestion of agents such as the fluorenamines may repay further investigation.

  3. To give in return

    To give in return; requite.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at repay. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at repay. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at repay

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA