Repay has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Verb
1
pay back
"Please refund me my money"
2
make repayment for or return something
"After borrowing my umbrella, I promised to repay it by bringing it back before rain started again."
3
act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions
"She decided to repay his kindness by buying him dinner after he helped her move apartments."
4
answer back
"When he insulted her, she decided to repay him by calling his mother a fool."
5
To pay back.
"After borrowing fifty dollars from his roommate, he promised to repay him by Friday."
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Origin
The word "repay" comes from the Old French repaier, meaning "to pay back." This traces further back to the Latin root for peace, originally signifying the act of settling a debt to restore peaceful relations.