Usually means: Respond to harm with harm.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word retaliate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaliate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retaliate: Merriam-Webster
  3. retaliate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retaliate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. retaliate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. retaliate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Retaliate, retaliate: Wordnik
  8. retaliate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. retaliate: Wiktionary
  10. retaliate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. retaliate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. retaliate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. retaliate: Dictionary.com
  14. retaliate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Retaliate (Misery Index album), Retaliate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Retaliate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. retaliate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. retaliate: Rhymezone
  19. retaliate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. retaliate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. retaliate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. retaliate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. retaliate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaliate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. retaliate: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retaliate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retaliate: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.

Similar:
avenge, revenge, return, retort, repulse, retrogress, revile, fight back, pay out, revert, more...

Opposite:
forgive, pardon, excuse, overlook, tolerate

Phrases:
to retaliate, opposite of retaliate, more...

Adjectives:
latter, british, french, less, chinese, japanese, public, first

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Similar:
avenge, revenge, return, retort, repulse, retrogress, revile, fight back, pay out, revert, more...

Opposite:
forgive, pardon, excuse, overlook, tolerate

Phrases:
to retaliate, opposite of retaliate, more...

Adjectives:
latter, british, french, less, chinese, japanese, public, first

Colors:
    red,     black,     dark red,     crimson,     maroon, more...



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