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retaliate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retaliate \Re*tal"i*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retaliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Retaliating.] [L. retaliatus, p. p. of retaliare to retaliate; pref. re- re- + a word akin to talio talion, retaliation. Cf. Talion.] To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]
One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his
visit should be retaliated.
--Sir T.
Herbert.
It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries
of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we
are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.
--Swift.
Retaliate \Re*tal"i*ate\, v. i. To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin retaliatus, past participle of retaliare "requite, retaliate" (see retaliation). Related: Retaliated; retaliating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront. 2 (context transitive English) To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.
WordNet
v. take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother" [syn: revenge, avenge]
make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing" [syn: strike back]
Wikipedia
Retaliate is the debut album of American deathgrind band Misery Index.
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Usage examples of "retaliate".
Some angiosperms retaliated by growing quickly to heights above these lowbrowsers.
Churchill, from a few miles out of the town, was able to retaliate with lampoons and songs about Bute and his followers.
Isaac has found ways to reduce the profit that the Goldsmiths reap when they deliver bullion to the Mint to be coined, and they have retaliated by crafting new trial plates of such fineness that Isaac has been hard pressed to mint guineas pure enough.
Governor Clarke, on the plea of retaliating Spanish outrages, gave letters of marque to several privateers, including Coxon, the same famous chief who in 1680 had led the buccaneers into the South Seas.
If however the Irish retaliate by doing something which in no way helps them but merely annoys us, such as stopping the Foynes airport facilities, I should feel free to retaliate on their cross-Channel trade.
They insist on making pests of themselves by visiting raids on Gyer, while my people retaliate in kind, regardless of my efforts to stop them.
The boy ducked into the snow castle and pelted the shadi with snowballs and Hivis, laughing, retaliated.
Perhaps, at some point in the future, I shall find need to retaliate upon whomever is responsible.
The bull was particularly bellicose in tone and the French retaliated, expelling Italian bankers from the realm and, much more to the point, cutting off the export of money, which denied the papacy a considerable part of its income.
There are some malarious spots on the edge of Lake Champlain, arid there have been some temporary centres of malaria, within the memory of man, on one or more of our Massachusetts rivers, but these are harmless enough, for the most part, unless the millers dam them, when they are apt to retaliate with a whiff from their meadows, that sets the whole neighborhood shaking with fever and ague.
Ultimately, Israel did pass back a similar assurance, but it also warned Saddam that it would retaliate massively for any Iraqi aggression.
Glendower abroad, the latter had often, though innocently, galled the vanity and self-pride of the parvenu affecting the aristocrat, and in poverty the parvenu was anxious to retaliate.
Among the constantly scrolling series of objections to disarming Saddam Hussein, liberals argued that al-Qaeda hated Saddam because he was a secularist, but also warned that if we attacked Iraq, al-Qaeda would retaliate with new terrorist attacks against America.
He knew Ron was out to get him and, in his psychotic frame of mind, Harle wanted to retaliate, get back at the Ashberry family.
When they approached within a distance of 200 yards they Commenced a fusilade of rifle fire on the Canadians, who immediately retaliated by delivering a volley, which was executed with such precision that the Fenian advance was checked.