Definition of Repay

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Definition of Repay

Repay

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.

To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.

To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.

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Repay Quotations

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

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Arthur Ashe

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois 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

The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
Doc Hastings

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
Maria Mitchell

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
Doc Hastings

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
Boris Spassky

Repay Translations

repay in Dutch is restitueren, terugbetalen
repay in French is rembourser
repay in Italian is rimborsare
repay in Portuguese is reembolse
repay in Spanish is reembolsar

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