0 past simple and past participle of retaliate
1 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.
When all this failed, these soldiers retaliated through satirical songs.
That is, the aggressive boys retaliated aggressively, and the nonaggressive boys withheld any retaliation.
Unsurprisingly the angry monks retaliated, barring entry to the chapter to the bishop's clerks.
The army retaliated aggressively with heavy ground re, air attacks, and the destruction of crops.
Opponents retaliated likewise, branding the houses as unsaleable, 'monstrous', 'nothing less than large bird-cages'.
The intendant retaliated quickly, arresting some of these "insubordinate" men.
The government retaliated by escalating the scale and intensity of violence against rural areas and rebellious military units.
Whigs, of course, retaliated in other ways.
