retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin
(verb) answer back
refund, return, repay, give back
(verb) pay back; “Please refund me my money”
requite, repay
(verb) make repayment for or return something
reward, repay, pay back
(verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone’s behavior or actions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
repay (third-person singular simple present repays, present participle repaying, simple past and past participle repaid)
To pay back.
• Payer, apery, payer, peary, praye, rapey
Source: Wiktionary
Re*pay" (r-p"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repaid (-pd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repaying.] Etym: [Pref. re- + pay: cf. F. repayer.]
1. To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums. Shak.
2. To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection. Rambler.
3. To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.
Syn.
– To refund; restore; return; recompense; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; reimburse; requite.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 May 2025
(verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; “On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
