refund
verbnounattested in dialogue
- //ɹɪˈfʌnd//
- //ˈɹiːfʌnd//
To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
verb
- 1
To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
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.
- 2
To obtain a refund.
This game sucks, Imma refund it.
- 3
obsoleteTo supply (someone) again with funds.
to refund a railroad loan
- 4
obsoleteTo pour back (something).
Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object.
When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood
Etymology
From Middle English refunden, refounden, from Old French refondre, refonder, refunder (“to restore; pay back”), from Latin refundere; prefix re- (“re-”) + fundere (“to pour”): compare French refondre, refonder. See fuse (“to melt”), and compare refound (“to cast again”), and refuse.
noun
- 1
An amount of money returned.
If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a full refund.
Forms
- plural
- refunds
- past tense
- refunded
- past participle
- refunded
- present participle
- refunding
- third person singular
- refunds
refund · To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
refusal · The act of refusing.refuse · Discarded, rejected.reg · A regular.