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Inf get back on the board, Inf. get even-steven; reward, reward for favors received, pay back in kind, return the compliment or the favor, reciprocate.
2. retaliate, hit back at, get back at, Inf. pay off an old score, Inf. settle the score, Inf. even the score, get even with [s.o.], revenge, avenge; make reprisal, give as good as one gets, pay [s.o.] in his own coin, give [s.o.] a dose of his own medicine, give [s.o.] his just deserts, give [s.o.] his comeuppance.
repayment, n. 1. compensation, remuneration, reimbursement, return, emolument; quittance, requital, reciprocation, recompense, indemnity, indemnification, redress, reparation, restitution, atonement, amends.
2. retaliation, revenge, vengeance, retribution, comeuppance, just deserts; reprisal, measure for measure, tit for tat, Inf. a dose of one's own medicine.
repeal, v. 1. revoke, rescind, abrogate; annul, disannul, nullify, abolish, declare null and void, void, make void; quash, invalidate, vacate, set aside; recant, retract, withdraw, disavow, recall, abjure; countermand, counterorder, overrule, override; renege, reverse; terminate, dissolve, do away with, remove, dispense with, cancel, put an end to, throw overboard. -n. 2. revocation, rescinding, rescission, abrogation, repealing; annulment, disannulment, nullification, abolishment, abolition, voidance, voiding; quashing, invalidation, setting aside; recantation, retraction, withdrawal, disavowal, recall, abjuration, repudiation; countermand, counterorder, overruling, overriding, reversal; termination, dissolution, cancellation, doing away with, removal, putting an end to, throwing overboard.
repeat, v. 1. iterate, reiterate, recite, restate, recapitulate, rehearse, recount, retell, reword, rephrase, paraphrase, ingeminate; rerun, play back, regurgitate, reprise, SI. come again; tautologize, battologize; redo, do over or again; hammer or beat or drive into [s.o.'s] head; hammer away, pound away, dwell on, harp on.
2. reproduce, duplicate, reduplicate, ditto, replicate; echo, reecho, parrot; remake, reconstruct, reshape, recreate, resurrect; ring the changes.
-n. 3. repetition. See - repetition (def. 1).
4. duplicate, duplication, reduplication, copy, reproduction, Inf. ditto; All Music, reprise, refrain, repe-tend.
5. rerun, rebroadcast, replay; encore, repeat performance; playback; retrospective.
repeated, adj. 1. frequent, recurrent; constant, continuous, continual, incessant, steady, ceaseless, endless, unending, unbroken, unremitting.
2. duplicated, reduplicated; doubled, redoubled; iterated, reiterated, twice-told, often-told.
repeatedly, adv. frequently, often, oftentimes; recurrently, again and again, over and over, many times over, time and again, time and time again, time after time; day after day, day in, day out, night and day, all the time; constantly, continually, continuously, steadily, incessantly, ceaselessly, on and on, without letup or intermission or break.
repel, v. 1. drive back, push back, thrust back, ward off, beat back, force back; throw off, check, scotch, repulse, chase away, run off, put to flight, rout, Inf. send packing; scatter, disperse, oppose, withstand, make a stand against, Archaic, forfend.
2. resist, hold off, fend off, stave off, keep at arm's length, keep at bay, parry, stand off; avert, foil, checkmate, frustrate, contravene, Inf. cross, confound, nonplus; rebuff, reject, refuse to deal with, have nothing to do with, spurn, slight, Inf snub, Inf. cut, Inf. cut dead; give the cold shoulder to, Inf. cold-shoulder, scorn, disdain, contemn.
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