Definition of Give back

1. Verb. Pay back. "They give back them the money"; "Please refund me my money"

Exact synonyms: Refund, Repay, Return
Generic synonyms: Pay
Specialized synonyms: Reimburse, Restitute, Restore
Derivative terms: Refund, Refund, Repayment, Repayment

Definition of Give back

1. Verb. (transitive) To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.). ¹

2. Verb. (transitive intransitive idiomatic) To contribute money, goods(,) or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Give Back

give a person line
give a rat's arse
give a ring
give a sneck posset
give about
give against
give an eye-tooth
give and take
give as good as one gets
give away
give away the store
give back (current term)
give birth
give by
give care
give chase
give cry
give curry
give ear
give forth
give heed
give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
give hostage to fortune
give in

Literary usage of Give back

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"Nay, the Boeotians were much more impious in wishing to give back dead bodies in return for sanctuaries, than they were who would not at the price of ..."

2. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1852)
"... condition,—to re-establish the persons in all their rights and obligations, to give back the effects to the owners,— of war, if property be seized under ..."

3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
""Our sentries helpless meet the invading shock "And give back blind and unavailing war." By Panthus' word and by some god impelled, I flew to battle, ..."

4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"Roses alone I crave— to crown my brow — The gold be thine — give back my youth to me ! Thou call'st on Kings to bow at wealth's proud shrine : ' Treasures ..."

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