0 the act of hurting someone or doing something harmful to someone because they have done or said something harmful to you: --
She suffered severe retaliation for writing articles for the newspapers.
The bomb attack was in retaliation for the recent arrest of two well-known terrorists.
Any retaliation we now engage in he assumes would be gratuitous cruelty.
These works, known as zarzuelas costumbristas, were understood as a form of nationalist retaliation against foreign influence.
There was a clash between two military needs-the need for retaliation and the long-term need for defensive arms.
Results suggest that such programs might focus on adolescents' means-based judgments of the justifiability of aggressive behaviors and retaliation.
Resistance and protest in response to being thwarted predate retaliation, but all occur in the first year.
Punishment is invariably costly to those who administer it, and hence, is altruistic, because it takes time and energy and invites retaliation.
The takeover of fields under the provisions of the new law led to bitter recriminations, divorces (as retaliations against family groups) and other conflicts.
That is, the aggressive boys retaliated aggressively, and the nonaggressive boys withheld any retaliation.