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pay back in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. take vengeance on or get even
    "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him"
    pay back  pay off  get  fix 
  2. act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions
    reward  repay  pay back 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


pay back in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) "transitive" to repay
  2. (verb) "figurative from sense 1" to exact revenge
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