to repay

Synonyms

recompense requite

Examples

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. François de La Rochefoucauld

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat. Finnish Proverb

It is difficult to repay the gifts you get at a wedding or a funeral. Chinese Proverb

If you promise something it is a debt that you have to repay. Slovenian Proverb

Words in the phrase

to repay

Close letter words and terms

to remonstrate to remove to renounce is to make an affirmative declaration of abandonment to repeat to repel to rephrase it