What's the difference between requite and requited?

Requite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a requited, mutually beneficial four years, he just wanted to go home.
  • (2) He is desperate to be shadow chancellor, the second most important role on the opposition frontbench after your own, and he will be unforgiving if you don't requite his ambition.
  • (3) She said that to keep prices within households' reach, price inflation needed to be kept 1.8% a year, which would requite 210,000 new homes.
  • (4) However, such an approach would requite costly federal subsidies and measures to force down university tuition fees: intervention that could alienate some voters and leave Democrats vulnerable to charges that they are seeking to make taxpayers subsidise what are often lucrative college degree courses.

Requited


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Requite

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a requited, mutually beneficial four years, he just wanted to go home.
  • (2) He is desperate to be shadow chancellor, the second most important role on the opposition frontbench after your own, and he will be unforgiving if you don't requite his ambition.
  • (3) She said that to keep prices within households' reach, price inflation needed to be kept 1.8% a year, which would requite 210,000 new homes.
  • (4) However, such an approach would requite costly federal subsidies and measures to force down university tuition fees: intervention that could alienate some voters and leave Democrats vulnerable to charges that they are seeking to make taxpayers subsidise what are often lucrative college degree courses.

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