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What is the verb for requite?

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requite
  1. To return something (usually something figurative) that has been given; to repay; to recompense
  2. To retaliate.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not requite man according to his work?”
      “After years of mistreatment, she finally found the courage to requite her abuser and ensure that justice was served.”
      “When Hero and Ursula leave, Beatrice decides that she will give up her proud ways, and requite Benedick's love.”
requit
  1. Obsolete form of requite.
requites
requits
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of requit
requited
  1. simple past tense and past participle of requite
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We reopen old wounds of briefly requited, now lost love, hidden pain, suppressed grief.”
      “At 15, I was chunky, not very attractive and none of my crushes was ever requited.”
      “The film also continues the on-screen relationship of Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, though here his love is requited, unlike in The Apartment.”
requitted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of requit
requiting
  1. present participle of requite
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We saw earlier that, although human punishment does not bear the full burden of requiting good and evil, it must hold up requital as an ideal.”
      “Who braids the noteless leaves to crowns, requiting Desert with fame, in Action's every field?”
      “The poor little author was already an adept in the traditional modes of requiting a patron.”
requitting
  1. present participle of requit
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