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