Retaliate

Definition: Retaliate

Retaliate

Verb

1. Take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother".

2. Make a counterattack; "THe Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener".

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Date "retaliate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Note: Retaliate \Re*tal"i*ate\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Retaliated; Retaliating.]. (references)

Synonyms: Retaliate

Interchange

Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner,Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite.

Retaliation

Verb: retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo; Noun: give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores.

Crosswords: Retaliate

When I don't report they'll retaliate. (A View to a Kill; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

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Music

• Retaliate [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

• Retaliate First (reference)

• UHB IV: Stop & Retaliate [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

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Civil Liberties

Burma

There also were reports that local government authorities alerted Muslim elders in advance of the attacks and warned them not to retaliate to avoid escalating the violence. (references)

Pakistan

At times landlords and their agents, who have become accustomed to terrorizing with impunity the ordinary citizens living on their lands, retaliate against journalists who report on their actions. (references)

Rwanda

There were fewer reports that RCD and RPA troops deliberately targeted Catholic churches to both intimidate the local population and retaliate for the Church's perceived role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. (references)

Human Rights

Togo

Under the terms of the inquiry, the Government pledged not to retaliate against witnesses. (references)

Guinea

On June 29, authorities arrested 52 persons reportedly after refugees in the Telikoro refugee camp attacked a group of gendarmes, who did not retaliate, inside the camp. (references)

Bangladesh

Then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina challenged her supporters and the police to retaliate for the killing of her student supporters, declaring that there should be 10 opposition bodies for each one from the ruling party. (references)

Worker Rights

Tunisia

Workers are free to remove themselves from dangerous situations without jeopardizing their employment, and they may take legal action against employers who retaliate against them for exercising this right. (references)

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Albanian

kundërpërgjigje (reply, riposte), hakmerrem (avenge oneself, get even with, requite, revenge oneself). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قابل الأذى بمثله, ‏إنتقم (get back, get even with, get one's own back, hit back, reprisal, requite, revenge, strike back, take revenge, wreak, wreak vengeance), ‏ثأر (avenge, get one's own back, requite, retaliation, revenge, tit for tat, vengeance). (various references)

Bulgarian 

водя митническа война, отмъщавам си (avenge oneself, get back at smb., repay, requite, revenge oneself, serve out), отплащам със същото (retort), прилагам репресалии. (various references)

Chinese 

报复 (Avenge, Avenged, Avenging, reprisal, Retaliated, Retaliating, retaliation, retaliatory), � �復 (make reprisals, retaliation, revenge). (various references)

Czech

pomstít se (avenge oneself on, get one's own back, kick, revenge oneself, wreak vengeance), oplatit stejným (retort). (various references)

Farsi 

تلافی کردن (Avenge, Counter, Pay, Reciprocate, Recoup, Reprisal), تاوان دادن (Compensate, Indemnify, Penalize, Remunerate), عین چیزی رابکسی برگرداندن . (various references)

Finnish

maksaa takaisin (pay back, refund, reimburse, repay). (various references)

French

rendre la pareille � qn, user de représailles, se venger de (be revenged, requite). (various references)

German

zurückschlagen (beat back, beat off, beatback, fight back, flare back, fold back, hit back, kick, knock away, knock back, leaf back, pull back, repel, repulse, return, roll back, strike back, swing back, to repulse, to strike back, turn down), vergeltung üben (take revenge), vergelten (compensate, give back, reciprocate, repaid, repay, requite, return, reward, to reciprocate, to requite, to retaliate, to reward), sich revanchieren (get one's revenge, reciprocate, return the compliment, return the favor), nachschlagen (consult, foul from behind, look up, lookup, take after). (various references)

Greek 

ανταποδίδω (reciprocate, render, repay, requite). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל� קום (avenge, get back, get square, hit back, revenge, take revenge, wreak). (various references)

Hungarian

visszafizet (pay back, pay up, reimburse, repay, retort, to acquit, to pay back, to recompense, to refund, to reimburse, to repay), megtorol (requite, score off, to acquit, to avenge, to recompense, to requite, to retaliate). (various references)

Indonesian

balas dendam (revenge, vengeance). (various references)

Italian

rivendicare (assert, claim, demand, vindicate), rivalersi, far rappresaglie (strike back). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

一矢�'� �いる (to retaliate, to return a blow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっし�'むくいる (to retaliate, to return a blow). (various references)

Korean 

보복하십시�". (various references)

Pig Latin

etaliateray.(various references)

Portuguese

revidar, retaliar (get back at, revenge), pagar na mesma moeda (pay a person back in the same coin), desforrar-se de (requite), desforrar-se (revenge). (various references)

Romanian

rãzbuna (avenge, revenge, slake), se rãzbuna (be even with smb., get equal with smb., get even with smb., pay off, repay, revenge oneself on smb., serve out, take revenge for smth. on smb., take vengeance on, wreak), aplica represalii vamale, întoarce (crank, geld, put about, repay, retort, reverse, revert, set, shift, spade, turn). (various references)

Russian 

отплачивать (pay back, reciprocate, repay, requite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vršiti odmazdu, osvetiti se (avenge oneself, avenge oneself on, get back, get even with, pay back, revenge, revenge oneself, wreak). (various references)

Spanish

desquitarse (get even with). (various references)

Swedish

hämnas (avenge, revenge, revenge oneself). (various references)

Thai

ตอบโต้. (various references)

Turkish

misilleme yapmak (hit back, make reprisals on, make reprisals upon, pay back in one's own coin, return), intikamını almak (avenge, be revenged, revenge, revenge on, take one's revenge, vindicate), aynını yapmak (replicate), aynı şekilde karşılık verilmek, öç almak (avenge oneself, be avenged, pay back, pay off, requite, revenge oneself on smb., serve smb. out, take revenge, take vengeance on, take vengeance upon, wreak vengeance on smb.). (various references)

Ukrainian

відплатити тим же, подавати зустрічне обвинувачення. (various references)

remunerationem, remunerator, talio reddo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "retaliate": retaliated, retaliates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Retaliate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: betalite, ettelaat, racheliae, realite, rechabite, renavigate, retallate. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aliterate.

-1 letter: laterite, literate.

-2 letters: arietta, ariette, atelier, iterate, rattail, retitle, tertial.

-3 letters: aerate, aerial, atrial, attire, elater, lariat, latria, latter, letter, litter, ratite, rattle, realia, relate, retail, retial, retile, tailer, tilter.

-4 letters: aerie, alate, alert, altar, alter, areae, areal, arete, ariel, artal, artel, atilt, atria, attar, eater, elate, elite, irate, laari, laree, later, latte, liter.

+1 letter: aliterates, alliterate, retaliated, retaliates.

+2 letters: alliterated, alliterates, alternative, intercalate, retaliative.

+3 letters: alliterative, alternatives, antiliterate, atheoretical, extraditable, intercalated, intercalates, rearticulate, recapitulate, rehabilitate.

+4 letters: alternatively, antiliterates, determinantal, extraliterary, extrapolative, materialities, overtalkative, parenthetical, rattlebrained, rearticulated, rearticulates, recapitulated, recapitulates, rehabilitated, rehabilitates, repeatability, theatricalize, transliterate.

+5 letters: aeroelasticity, alliteratively, alterabilities, antifederalist, articulateness, faintheartedly, interdialectal, interplanetary, keratoplasties, multiparameter, overarticulate, presentational, rehabilitative, tatterdemalion, theatricalized, theatricalizes, traceabilities, transferential, transliterated, transliterates, treatabilities, trihalomethane, weatherability.