Usually means: Respond to actions in kind.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word reciprocate:

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

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  1. reciprocate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reciprocate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. reciprocate: Medical dictionary

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  1. reciprocate: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See reciprocated as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.
verb:  (transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
verb:  (intransitive) To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
verb:  (intransitive) To counter, retort or retaliate.

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