Repay vs Punish - What's the difference?
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To pay back.
To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow )
To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness.
Repay is a related term of punish.
As verbs the difference between repay and punish
is that repay is to pay back while punish is to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.repay
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Verb
- I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.
