(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.
Retribute
Definition:
(v. t.) To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal.
Example Sentences:
(1) But people have also faced retribution even far from Chen's home.
(2) Photograph: Owen Gibson Yet for those who challenge authority through their words or actions, retribution is swift.
(3) There are already calls for large protests in Egypt this week demanding fair trials and retribution, as well as measures to purge former regime officials from political and economic life.
(4) • New York 's Jonathan Chait declares Christie all but finished: "The e-mails prove that Christie’s loyalists closed the bridge deliberately as political retribution, not as a 'traffic study' as claimed.
(5) 9.51pm BST And now, we prepare for retribution: David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) No Senator who heeledtoday on the NRA's command should have the gall to issue mournful statements the next time gun violence strikes.
(6) When it also became clear that Gaddafi had secretly been developing nuclear and chemical weapons, retribution was swift.
(7) The four did not want to give their full names for fear of retribution.
(8) Meanwhile the Police Federation's attempts to extract retribution for the disputed p-word, in the form of Andrew Mitchell's sacking, have been roundly slagged off by former Labour minister Chris Mullin , who last week described the organisation as "a bully", "a bunch of headbangers" and "a mighty vested interest that has seen off just about all attempts to reform the least reformed part of the public service".
(9) "We owe it to them to make sure that where they are under real threat of retribution or intimidation, we look after them."
(10) The opposition had warned, with each stage of the “normalization” – the release on both sides of political prisoners; a deal to allow telecom companies to strengthen the internet on the island and for US banks to do business there; a US agreement to expand remittances and ease travel restrictions – that too many opponents of the Castro regime remain in prisons, or remain sentenced to silence under threat of retribution.
(11) Tyson Fury has no fear of retribution – he will say and do as he pleases | Kevin Mitchell Read more Every Saturday night, crowds of men from our rundown housing estate would get tanked up and go to watch those from an even lower pecking order than themselves inflict pain and humiliation on each other, while the spectators egged them on.
(12) The stated desire to avenge the massacre has also given rise to fears by locals from Tikrit that the militias may carry out retributive killings or summary executions.
(13) He is finding scapegoats for the scapegoated and demands retribution for their suffering.
(14) Clegg said he hoped it would "not be conducted in a mood or spirit of retribution".
(15) The attacks were “to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers”, a spokesman said.
(16) And indeed, why in such a scenario confine America's retribution to the Taliban?
(17) This hauteur helped her navigate the gay story: she was simply too good for that, and she was powerful enough in her younger years to be able to threaten retribution.
(18) On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $15-per-hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.
(19) The retribution was swift and decisive, with Blatter talking about "angels and devils".
(20) Finally, we propose a model that may be useful for lessening the conflict between retributive and utilitarian perspectives.