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pay home

pay home verb: to strike to the quick; to retaliate.

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...

Forms of pay home

third-person singular presentpays home
present participlepaying home
past participlepaid home
pastpaid home

Origin of pay home

Compare German heimzahlen.

Questions about pay home

What does pay home mean?
Pay home means to strike to the quick; to retaliate.
What part of speech is pay home?
Pay home is a verb.
What is the past tense of pay home?
The past tense of pay home is paid home.

Words near pay home in the dictionary

  1. pay gorn
  2. pay grade
  3. pay grades
  4. pay heed
  5. pay homage to
  6. pay home
  7. pay it forward
  8. pay nature's debt
  9. pay no mind
  10. pay off
  11. pay off old scores

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