requites
Returns the favor
Requites is the third-person singular of requite, meaning to repay or return in kind.
The word appears in literary and formal contexts, often involving love, favors, or wrongs: She requites his devotion with indifference.
Requite can mean either to reward or to avenge, depending on what's being returned: He requites kindness with kindness, injury with injury.
Return money owed
- returnGo back again
- recompensePayment for loss
- compensateMake up for
- reciprocateReturn in kind
reward · exchange · mutuality · give-and-take · quid-pro-quo · correspondence · equivalence · balance
Punish on behalf of
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- vengeanceRetaliation for injury
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
punish · retaliate · reprisal · comeuppance · counterstrike · counterattack · vindicate · nemesis
repay
Return money owed
- returnGo back again
- recompensePayment for loss
- compensateMake up for
reciprocate · reward · exchange · mutuality · give-and-take · quid-pro-quo · correspondence · equivalence · balance · matching
avenge
Punish on behalf of
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- vengeanceRetaliation for injury
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
payback · punish · retaliate · reprisal · comeuppance · counterstrike · counterattack · vindicate · nemesis · justice
requitesignores
Refuses to acknowledge
disregards · overlooks · neglects · withholds · lets slide