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- Dictionaryretaliate/rɪˈtalɪeɪt/
verb
- 1. make an attack in return for a similar attack: "the blow stung and she retaliated immediately"
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to hurt someone or do something harmful to someone because they have done or said something harmful to you: If someone insults you, don't retaliate as it only makes the situation worse. The demonstrators threw rocks at the police, who retaliated by fir ing blanks into the crowd.
The meaning of RETALIATE is to return like for like; especially : to get revenge. How to use retaliate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Retaliate.
Retaliate definition: to return like for like, especially evil for evil. See examples of RETALIATE used in a sentence.
to hurt someone or do something harmful to someone because they have done or said something harmful to you: If someone insults you, don't retaliate as it only makes the situation worse. The demonstrators threw rocks at the police, who retaliated by fir ing blanks into the crowd.
To retaliate means to get back at someone, usually through a counterattack. “Ned got hit with a cream pie, then he retaliated by throwing a bucket of Jell-O at his attackers.”
the act of hurting someone or doing something harmful to someone because they have done or said something harmful to you: The bomb attack was in retaliation for the recent arrest of two well-known terrorists. She suffered severe retaliation for writing articles for the newspapers. See. retaliate. Fewer examples.
To do something in response to an action done to oneself or an associate, especially to attack or injure someone as a response to a hurtful action. v.tr. To pay back (an injury) in kind. [Late Latin retāliāre, retāliāt- : Latin re-, re- + Latin tāliō, punishment in kind; see telə- in Indo-European roots .] re·tal′i·a′tion n.
