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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retaliation \Re*tal`i*a"tion\, n. The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
God . . . takes what is done to others as done to
himself, and by promise obloges himself to full
retaliation.
--Calamy.
Syn: Requital; reprisal; retribution; punishment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice. 2 An act of violent response.
WordNet
n. action taken in return for an injury or offense [syn: revenge]
Wikipedia
Retaliation is the second album by American comedian Dane Cook. It was released on July 26, 2005 by Comedy Central Records.
The CDs contain a concert done by Cook at The Comedy Connection in Boston, Massachusetts. The DVD contains Dane's appearances on Shorties Watchin' Shorties and Crank Yankers, Comedy Central's Denis Leary Roast and Comedy Central's Bar Mitzvah Bash. The Crank Yankers call Foreign Guy English Lessons is previously unreleased.
The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200, which was the most successful comedy album debut since Steve Martin's A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978. It went gold six days after its initial release and platinum on November 30, 2005. Retaliation achieved double platinum status on February 15, 2007.
Retaliation is the second and final album by American crossover thrash band Carnivore. It was released in 1987 by Roadrunner Records, and later released on CD in 1991 without tracks 4 and 9. It was re-issued with a different cover on January 23, 2001, and contains three demo tracks from the previous album.
"Retaliation" is a single by Hip Hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, the third released from their second album Violent by Design, following " Heavenly Divine" and " Genghis Khan". Released in 2001, the single was the group's last release on self-run Superegular Recordings. The following year, the group migrated to Babygrande Records. "Retaliation" contains a musical sample from "El Rio Y Las Rosas" by Rosita Peru, a vocal sample from "Cross My Heart" by Killah Priest, and a vocal sample from "Money in the bank" by Kool G. Rap. The single also contains the edited "Retaliation (Remix)", and the B-Side track "Blood Runs Cold", featuring Heltah Skeltah's Sean Price, both originally only available on this single. Babygrande Records re-released Violent by Design in 2004, including both "Retaliation (Remix)" and "Blood Runs Cold" as bonus tracks.
The "Retaliation" single marked the last appearance from group member Jus Allah on a Jedi Mind Tricks track. By 2002, he had split from the group due to personal conflict, returning the group to its original lineup of Vinnie Paz and Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind. Jus reconciled with the group in 2006, and appeared on the group's latest album, A History of Violence.
Retaliation is a solo album by rapper, Keak da Sneak. It was released on January 15, 2002 for Black Market Records and was produced by Sean T, Keak da Sneak and One Drop Scott. It sold 2,500 copies on its first week on shelves.
is a 1968 Japanese film directed by Yasuharu Hasebe.
In the sense of revenge retaliation is a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance.
Retaliation or Retaliate may also refer to:
- workplace or employment retaliation in the context of employment discrimination
- Retaliate (Angerfist album), 2011
- Retaliate (Misery Index album), 2003
- Retaliation (film), a 1968 Japanese film
- Retaliation (Carnivore album), 1987
- Retaliation (Dane Cook album), a 2005 comedy album/DVD
- Retaliation (Keak da Sneak album), 2002
- "Retaliation" (song), a song by Jedi Mind Tricks
- Retaliator, a 2012 Nerf blaster released under the N-Strike Elite series
Usage examples of "retaliation".
But instead of abusing, or exerting, the authority of the state, to revenge his personal injuries, Julian contented himself with an inoffensive mode of retaliation, which it would be in the power of few princes to employ.
The barbican tower was still held by the French, though they were no longer using their crossbows for fear of retaliation by the English arrows.
Yet he was deterred from employing chemical and biological weapons against Israel for fear of the much heavier retaliation Israel could mount with its nuclear arsenal.
As for the Expansionist members, they drank in their imagined responses to such revolts like fine wine, getting tipsy on vintage visions of retaliation.
The extreme devastation, and promiscuous massacre, of a savage war, were justified, in the eyes of the emperor, and perhaps in those of the world, by the cruel equity of retaliation: and such was the discipline of the Romans, and the consternation of the enemy, that Valentinian repassed the Danube without the loss of a single man.
Chuck and I knew we had created a monster and felt real good about it, but Chuck pointed out that it was sort of like watching your mother-in-law drive your new Cadillac off a cliff, because we knew that Jo would not go fuck herself but would go talk to the Fish, who would go talk to the Leggo, who would get us back but good, since the essence of any hierarchy is retaliation.
With a terrible screaming roar, the mylodon swung its two powerful forefeet in retaliation.
In a modern version of the Iran-Iraq war, actor Sean Penn accused Steve Bing, Hollywood producer and general degenerate, of blacklisting him from a film in retaliation for his peacenik activities.
With practiced skill the Mull fended off such importunities or appointed a study commission, which invariably reported the Treaty lands to be havens of peace compared to the Retent, where the independent tribes conducted feuds, raids, assassinations, retaliations, outrages, massacres, atrocities and ambushes.
The best case is against Israel, where Iraqi sources have stated that Saddam chose not to arm the Scuds with WMD warheads for fear of Israeli nuclear retaliation.
In instinctive retaliation, Webb grabbed the wrist of the hand that had struck him.
The danger of frequent perjury might justify the pronouncing against a false accuser the same penalty which his evidence would have inflicted: the disorders of the times might compel the legislator to punish every homicide with death, and every injury with equal retaliation.
Philabet Griswold, the pompous Blesser of Avonderre-Navarne, had begun pontificating about Sorbold and the need for an immediate retaliation earlier but was glared into silence by Stephen Navarne, a member of his own See.
Instead of commiserating with the economic plight of the British, the Canadians blustered and snarled, hurling threats of retaliation against any tariff adjustments the United Kingdom might have to make in its EEC negotiations.
The spirit of conquest, and even of enthusiasm, was extinct: the Saracens could no longer struggle, beyond their lines, either single or in small parties, without exposing themselves to the merciless retaliation of the Thracian peasants.