Definition of repay

"repay" in the verb sense

1. refund, return, repay, give back

pay back

"Please refund me my money"

2. requite, repay

make repayment for or return something

3. reward, repay, pay back

act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions

4. retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin

answer back

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Quotations for repay

He's not ungrateful that cannot, but he that will not repay. [ Proverb ]

Serve a noble disposition, though poor, the time comes that he will repay thee. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Everybody takes pleasure in returning small obligations; many go so far as to acknowledge moderate ones; but there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with ingratitude. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Ridicule intrinsically is a small faculty; we may say, the smallest of all faculties that other men are at the pains to repay with any esteem. It is directly opposed to thought, to knowledge, properly so called; its nourishment and essence is denial, which hovers on the surface, while knowledge dwells far below. [ Carlyle ]

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. [ Sterne ]

repay in Scrabble®

The word repay is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters repay:

REPAY
(42)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word repay

REPAY
(42)
REPAY
(36)
REPAY
(33)
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(33)
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(33)
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(30)
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(24)
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(12)
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(11)
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(11)
REPAY
(10)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In repay

REPAY
(42)
PRAY
(39)
PREY
(39)
PAYER
(39)
PYRE
(36)
PREY
(36)
REPAY
(36)
PRAY
(36)
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(33)
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(33)
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YEAR
(33)
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(26)
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(24)
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repay in Words With Friends™

The word repay is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters repay:

PAYER
(54)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word repay

REPAY
(48)
REPAY
(40)
REPAY
(36)
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(36)
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(36)
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(32)
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(20)
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(20)
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(18)
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(17)
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(15)
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(15)
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(14)
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(14)
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(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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(11)
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(11)
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(11)
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(10)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In repay

PAYER
(54)
PREY
(51)
PRAY
(51)
PYRE
(51)
REPAY
(48)
PREY
(45)
PARE
(45)
PRAY
(45)
PEAR
(45)
REAP
(45)
PAYER
(40)
REPAY
(40)
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(36)
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(36)
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(36)
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(36)
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(36)
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(36)
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(36)
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(36)
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(36)
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(33)
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(32)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(26)
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Words containing the sequence repay

Words that start with repay (8 words)

Words that end with repay (2 words)

Word Growth involving repay

Shorter words in repay

ay pay

pa pay

re

Longer words containing repay

prepay prepayable

prepay prepaying

prepay prepayment prepayments

prepay prepays

repayable nonrepayable

repayable prepayable

repayal

repayed

repaying nonrepaying

repaying prepaying

repayment prepayment prepayments

repayment repayments prepayments

repays prepays