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repaying

repaying is the present participle and gerund of repay.

Meaning of repay

Verb (1)

repay (third-person singular simple present repays, present participle repaying, simple past and past participle repaid)

  1. Synonym of pay back in all senses.
    • I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.
    Synonyms:
    liquidate, pay back in all senses
  2. (transitive) To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off.
    • The possible importance of excessive androgen secretion and the ingestion of agents such as the fluorenamines may repay further investigation.2013, M. Pavone-MacAluso, Testicular Cancer and Other Tumors of the Genitourinary Tract, page 517
  3. (transitive) To give in return; requite.

Verb (2)

repay (third-person singular simple present repays, present participle repaying, simple past and past participle repayed or repaid)

  1. To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.

Questions about repaying

What is repaying the present participle and gerund of?
Repaying is the present participle and gerund of repay.

Words near repaying in the dictionary

  1. repayed
  2. repayer
  3. repayers
  4. repayest
  5. repayeth
  6. repaying
  7. repayment
  8. repayment mortgage
  9. repayment mortgages
  10. repayments
  11. repayor

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