pay back
See also: payback
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pay back (third-person singular simple present pays back, present participle paying back, simple past and past participle paid back)
- (transitive) To pay a debt, to provide the entire amount of money owed to another.
- 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1:
- Douglas: Roy, give me £20.
Roy: What?
Douglas: Give me £20. I'll pay you back.
- Douglas: Roy, give me £20.
- He paid back all the money he owed her, with interest.
- 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1:
- (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.
- He paid her back with interest, avenging his father's murder with nine degrees of reprisal.
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to repay
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to exact revenge
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