retributeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɹɛtɹɪbjuːt/

動詞

retribute (third-person singular simple present retributes, present participle retributing, simple past and past participle retributed)

1. To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite.

   to retribute someone for their kindness

   to retribute just punishment to a criminal

   • 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC:

     retribute to him, so far as calm reason and conscience dictate, what is proportionate to his transgression

派生語

関連する語

• retribution

参照

• “retribute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• butterier