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paid home

paid home is the simple past and past participle of pay home.

Meaning of pay home

Verb

pay home (third-person singular simple present pays home, present participle paying home, simple past and past participle paid home)

  1. To strike to the quick; to retaliate.
    • Paulina. What (Soueraigne Sir)
      I did not well, I meant well: all my Seruices
      You haue pay'd home.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Questions about paid home

What is paid home the simple past and past participle of?
Paid home is the simple past and past participle of pay home.

Words near paid home in the dictionary

  1. paid for one's whistle
  2. paid forward
  3. paid good money after bad
  4. paid heed
  5. paid homage to
  6. paid home
  7. paid it forward
  8. paid nature's debt
  9. paid no heed
  10. paid no mind
  11. paid off

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