"repay" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ri'peɪ/ Audio: en-us-repay.ogg [US] Forms: repay [canonical], repays [third-person, singular], repaid [past], repaid [past, participle], repaying [present, participle]
Etymology: re- + pay Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|re|pay}} re- + pay Head templates: {{verb2|repay|repays|repaid|repaid|repaying}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you repay a person, you pay them back the money they paid you in the past.
    Sense id: simple-repay-en-verb-mvbaR1wS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms prefixed with re-
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