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retaliation

Roget category 718

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.4. Antagonism
›› 5.4.2. Active antagonism

#718. Retaliation

noun

retaliation, reprisal, retort, paybackcounter-stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-projectretribution, lex talionis [Lat.]reciprocation etc. (reciprocity) 12.
tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can playreproof valiant, retort courteous.
recrimination etc. (accusation) 938revenge etc. 919compensation etc. 30reaction etc. (recoil) 277.

verb

retaliate, retort, turn uponpay, pay off, pay backpay in one's own coin, pay in the same coincapreciprocate etc. 148turn the tables upon, return the complimentgive a quid pro quo etc. n., give as much as one takes, give as good as one getsgive and take, exchange fisticuffsbe quits, be even withpay off old scores.
serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a Tartar.

adjective

retaliating etc. v. — retaliatory, retaliativetalionic.

adverb

in retaliationen revanche.

phrase

mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat.] [Horace]; par pari refero [Lat.] [Terence]; tu quoque [Lat.], you tooyou're anothersuo sibi gladio hunc jugulo [Lat.]a beau jeu beau retour [Fr.]litem ?? [Lat.].
lite resolvit [Lat.] [Horace].

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