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pays nature's debt

pays nature's debt is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Pays nature's debt is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pay nature's debt.

Words near pays nature's debt in the dictionary

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

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