retaliate
verb
1 retaliate
Take revenge for a perceived wrong.
Roget 148: interchange, exchange, counterchange†; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, ... show more
Roget 718: retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate etc. 148; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; ... show more
Dutch: wraak nemen, vergelden, wreken
2 retaliate
Make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil:
— The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing.
synonym: strike back.
Moby thesaurus: alternate, atone, avenge, bandy, be quits with, change, come back at, commute, compensate, cooperate, counter, counterchange, cover, do penance, even the score, exchange, expiate, fill up, get back at, get even with ... show more.
retaliating
adjective
Roget 718: retaliating etc. v.; retaliatory, retaliative; talionic†.
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