refund
/ɹɪˈfʌnd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we’ll refund you the difference."
- "A Governor, that had Pillag'd the People, was […] sentenc'd to Refund what he had Wrongfully Taken."
- "Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext."
- "This game sucks, Imma refund it."
- "to refund a railroad loan"
- "Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵʰewd-, refunden