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paid nature's debt

paid nature's debt is the simple past and past participle of pay nature's debt.

Meaning of pay nature's debt

Verb

pay nature's debt (third-person singular simple present pays nature's debt, present participle paying nature's debt, simple past and past participle paid nature's debt)

  1. Synonym of pay the debt of nature (“to die”).
    • […] and that a younger famished dog should by this man at Mr. Knott's expense be acquired and held in reserve, against the day when the first famished dog should die, and that then again another famished dog should in the same way be procured and held in readiness, against the inevitable hour when...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Questions about paid nature's debt

What is paid nature's debt the simple past and past participle of?
Paid nature's debt is the simple past and past participle of pay nature's debt.

Words near paid nature's debt in the dictionary

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

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