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pays home

pays home is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pays home

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Pays home is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pay home.

Words near pays home in the dictionary

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

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