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отплащам се — meaning in English

otplashtam se

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English meaning

  • reciprocate verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
  • recompense noun Payment or reward given in return for something done, lost, or suffered.
  • render verb To cause something to become a certain way.
  • requite verb To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
  • retaliate verb To respond to harm done to you by causing harm in return.

Senses

отплащам се is used for these senses in English:

  • reciprocate (transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
  • recompense To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
  • render (transitive) To make over as a return.
  • requite To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
  • retaliate (intransitive) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.

reciprocate — full definition

  1. verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
  2. verb Of machinery, to move back and forth repeatedly, like a piston.

recompense — full definition

  1. noun Payment or reward given in return for something done, lost, or suffered.
  2. verb To pay or reward someone for something done, lost, or suffered.

Related Bulgarian words