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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pay home en · VERB

Etymology

Compare German heimzahlen.

Meanings

  1. To strike to the quick; to retaliate.
    • Paulina. What (Soueraigne Sir) I did not well, I meant well: all my Seruices You haue pay'd home. c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
paid home Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
paid home Tense=Past lexicographic
pays home Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
paying home Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic