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  1. 1. v. t. To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. bear the expenses of Source: wordnet
  4. 4. 1. To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. For the discharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much. Usher. 2. To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath. [Obs.] Spenser. Source: webster
  5. 5. v:100 v. bear the expenses of Source: ecdict

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