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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.
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.
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 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.”
Retaliate definition: to return like for like, especially evil for evil. See examples of RETALIATE used in a sentence.
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.
If you retaliate when someone harms or annoys you, you do something which harms or annoys them in return.
/rɪˈtælieɪt/ [intransitive] Verb Forms. to do something harmful to somebody because they have harmed you first synonym revenge. retaliate (against somebody/something) to retaliate against an attack. retaliate (by doing something/with something) The boy hit his sister, who retaliated by kicking him. Extra Examples. Word Origin. Join us.
to do something harmful to someone because they have harmed you first synonym revenge retaliate (against somebody/something) to retaliate against an attack retaliate (by doing something/with something) The boy hit his sister, who retaliated by kicking him.
