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Noun pay back has 2 senses
- payback - financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
--1 is a kind of return, issue, proceeds, take, takings, yield, payoff
- vengeance, retribution, payback - the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"
--2 is a kind of retaliation, revenge
Verb pay back has 2 senses
- reward, repay, pay back - act or give recompensation in recognition of someone's behavior or actions
--1 is one way to act, move
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something
- pay back, pay off, get, fix - take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him"
--2 is one way to get even, get back
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
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