reward
/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ verb B2- To give a reward to or for. · Why are you rewarding the child for misbehaving?· Why are you rewarding that bad behaviour?
- To be a recompense for. · Decorations are meant to reward the most meritous acts and services.
He/she/it rewards · Past rewarded · Past participle rewarded · -ing form rewarding
Verb forms
- Base form
- reward
- He/she/it
- rewards
- Past
- rewarded
- Past participle
- rewarded
- -ing form
- rewarding
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All the good people are rewarded and all the bad ones are suitably punished.
So you see that virtue was its own reward.
That, she felt, would be a sweet reward indeed for all her hard work and patient grubbing among unimaginative equations and conjugations.
Elizabeth’s eyes were fixed on her, with most painful sensations; and she watched her progress through the several stanzas with an impatience which was very ill rewarded at their close; for Mary, on receiving amongst the thanks of the table the hint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favour them again, after the pause of half a minute began another.
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