Gratify vs Requite - What's the difference?
gratify | requite | Synonyms |
To please.
To make content, to satisfy.
To anger, disquiet, fluster, intimidate, or any of the like
To return in kind; To repay; to recompense; to reward.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
*:But, remember—
*:For that's my business to you,—that you three
*:From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
*:Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
*:Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
*:The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
*:Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
*:Against your peace.
* 1925 , Franz Kafka, The Trial'', ''Vintage Books (London) , pg. 91:
To retaliate.
Gratify is a synonym of requite.
As verbs the difference between gratify and requite
is that gratify is to please while requite is to return in kind; to repay; to recompense; to reward.gratify
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Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* gladden, queemDerived terms
* gratification * gratifyingAntonyms
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* *requite
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Alternative forms
*(archaic) requitVerb
(en-verb)- He bowed slightly to K.'s uncle, who appeared very flattered to make this new acquaintance, yet, being by nature incapable of expressing obligation, requited the Clerk of the Court's words with a burst of embarrassed but raucous laughter.