Pay back

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo pay (a debt or the lender) so as to provide the entire amount of money owed.

"He paid her back with interest, giving her ₿3 and an NFT for the $6 he'd borrowed last week.; He paid back all the money he owed her, with interest."

2.VerbTo avenge, to exact revenge.

"He paid her back with interest, avenging his father's murder with nine degrees of reprisal."

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