pay back
/peɪ bæk/ verb- To 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.
- To avenge, to exact revenge. · He paid her back with interest, avenging his father's murder with nine degrees of reprisal.
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