Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of retaliating; the return of like for like; the doing of that to another which he has done to us; especially (now usually), requital of evil; reprisal; revenge.
- n. Synonyms Retribution, Reprisal, etc. See revenge.
Wiktionary
- n. Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
- n. An act of violent response
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. action taken in return for an injury or offense
Examples
“Schelling showed that a party can strengthen its position by overtly worsening its own options, that the capability to retaliate can be more useful than the ability to resist an attack, and that uncertain retaliation is more credible and more efficient than certain retaliation.”
“BUT I do not suggest that the American failure to outlaw the use of the bomb except in retaliation is the only cause of the absence of an agreement with the”
“Senator John McCain, who you just saw there, also said that sometimes inside Congress, the battle against pork barrel spending faces what he calls retaliation, especially from some lawmakers who are used to, as they say, bringing home the bacon.”
“LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight an American civilian beheaded on video by his captors in what they call retaliation for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers.”
“The police reported 2 deaths and 1 injury in what they described as retaliation to residents throwing stones at them.”
“If the Canadian exporter finds foreign markets barred to him in retaliation, that is simply his problem.”
“Mr. Sener is currently jailed on charges of aiding a terror organization, which he calls retaliation against him.”
“You call it "retaliation," but in most circles it would be simply corrective action.”
“Ward Churchill won his case against the University of Colorado today as a Denver jury unanimously decided he was fired in retaliation for his controversial essay about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.”
“In the first days after the cease-fire took effect, Islamic Jihad fired nine rockets and a few mortar rounds in retaliation for Israeli assassinations of their members in the West Bank.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘retaliation’.
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US - war on terror
mirandize, heavily-guarded h..., capture, manhunt, shootout, bloodied, suspect, gunshot wound, citywide lockdown, house-by-house se..., intelligence oppo..., naturalized Ameri... and 463 more...
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
acolyte, archrival, backhander, backlash, baksheesh, bashing, boo, bribery, cadre, chicanery, clash, coercion and 256 more...
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vacation, suggestion, donation, condition, education, examination, federation, generation, imagination, invention, operation, pollution and 166 more...
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fight
words for fighting
( open list, randomness )bout, fight, match, smackdown, blue, stoush, battle, clash, fuss, fray, ruckus, tussle and 115 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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TOI 25th april
pragmatic, mar, bugle, irk, retaliation, repercussion, onus, ebb, binge, stature, sop, reminisce
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GRE
high frequent
industrious, feckless, debunk, quintessence, loquacious, obsequious, laconic, plethora, lugubrious, serendipity, facetious, turgid and 261 more...
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 more...
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GRE
predisposed, browbeaten, hegemonic, corollary, mendacity, remnant, futile, touchstone, upshot, intuition, perseverance, perk and 214 more...
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Ships
All of which are mentioned in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, someplace or other. Most are British navy ships, some are French navy, and others aren't either one.
See also the list Sh...franklin, surprise, agamemnon, vanguard, truelove, minerva, diane, victory, sophie, cacafuego, euryalus, alastor and 382 more...
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Revenge
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new vocabulary
Tweets
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