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paying home

paying home is the present participle and gerund 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 paying home

What is paying home the present participle and gerund of?
Paying home is the present participle and gerund of pay home.

Words near paying home in the dictionary

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

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