MEANING
To give something in return for a service, affection, injury, or other treatment.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- requite love
- requite a kindness
On the page
He could not requite her love merely by staying.
She requited the stranger’s kindness with help when his own journey failed.
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Word forms
- Base
- requite
- Past tense
- requited
- Past participle
- requited
- Present participle
- requiting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- requite
- Present continuous
- am/is/are requiting
- Present perfect
- have/has requited
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been requiting
- Past
- requited
- Past continuous
- was/were requiting
- Past perfect
- had requited
- Past perfect continuous
- had been requiting
- Future
- will requite
- Future continuous
- will be requiting
- Future perfect
- will have requited
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been requiting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: requite; requites; requited; requited; requiting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: requites.
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