Definitions for requite

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requite re·quite

Spelling: [ri-kwahyt]

IPA: /rɪˈkwaɪt/

Requite is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in requite (eeiqrtu).

Definitions for requite

verb (used with object)

1. to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
2. to make retaliation for (a wrong, injury, etc.); avenge.
3. to make return to (a person, group, etc.) for service, benefits, etc.
4. to retaliate on (a person, group, etc.) for a wrong, injury, etc.
5. to give or do in return.

Origin of requite

1520-30; re- + obsolete quite, variant of quit¹

Examples for requite

Have you grown sleek and fat and smug in my service that you should requite me thus?

He had aroused her passion and no amount of long-distance love could requite it.

There's many a coinage costlier than ever the mint fashioned; he may requite me thus.

It shall go hard but I will requite her kindness one time or other.

Too great eagerness to requite an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Isabel had loved her then; and now, how was she about to requite her?

In return, I did what I could to requite her, and my good will was not overlooked.

Well then, do they requite your gifts of gold with gratitude?

If they kill us, how can we requite them for our obligations?

I was praying for the happiness of your future years—praying that I might requite your love.