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(transitive) To pay a debt, to provide the entire amount of money owed to another. / (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.

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pay back

verb

I need to pay back the money I borrowed from my friend.

意味（1）

(transitive) To pay a debt, to provide the entire amount of money owed to another.

Douglas: Roy, give me £20.

Roy: What?

Douglas: Give me £20. I'll pay you back.

意味（2）

(figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.

He paid her back with interest, avenging his father's murder with nine degrees of reprisal.