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retaliate Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to hurt someone or do something harmful to someone because they have done or said something harmful to you:
- If someone insults you, don't retaliate as it only makes the situation worse.
- The demonstrators threw rocks at the police, who retaliated by firing blanks into the crowd.
- The terrorists retaliated against the government with a bomb attack.
1 to hurt someone or do something harmful to someone because that person has done or said something harmful to you:
- His first instinct was to retaliate against the attacks.

The government retaliated by escalating the scale and intensity of violence against rural areas and rebellious military units.
However, when they took one day's action at the end of last year, their employer retaliated by locking them out and dismissing them all.
On the other hand, labour retaliated by gutting the highest wages possible through its trade unions, giving as little as it could in return.
I know of no horse who has ever taken anybody's life, although horses have retaliated by giving somebody a kick in the pants.
Then, when the enemy retaliated, one used something heavier, and then the enemy used something heavier, and so on right up the escalator.
If we have applied sanctions and tried to starve him out, and he retaliates, are you not driving him to war?
You impose your tariffs; the other party retaliates and destroys some of your industries.
However, and this was about 100 years ago, some sturdy spirits retaliated.