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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. retaliation

    Revenge is the act of making return for an injury done to oneself by doing injury to another person. Retaliation and revenge are personal and often bitter. Retaliation may be partial; revenge is meant to be complete, and may be excessive. Vengeance, which once meant an indignant vindication of justice, now signifies the most furious and unsparing revenge. Revenge emphasizes more the personal injury in return for which it is inflicted, vengeance the ill desert of those upon whom it is inflicted. A requital is strictly an even return, such as to quit one of obligation for what has been received, and even if poor or unworthy is given as complete and adequate. Avenging and retribution give a solemn sense of exact justice, avenging being more personal in its infliction, whether by God or man, and retribution the impersonal visitation of the doom of righteous law. Compare AVENGE; HATRED; REQUITE.

    Synonyms:
    avenging, requital, retribution, revenge, vengeance

    Antonyms:
    compassion, excuse, forgiveness, grace, mercy, pardon, pardon, pity, reconciliation

    Preposition:
    To take revenge upon the enemy, for the injury.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.7 / 3 votes

  1. retaliation

    Synonyms:
    revenge, repayment, retribution, requital, reprisals, reciprocation

    Antonyms:
    pardon, condonation, forgiveness, r mission

Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 3 votes

  1. retaliation, revengenoun

    action taken in return for an injury or offense

    Synonyms:
    revenge

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Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. retaliationnoun

    Synonyms:
    requital (of evil for evil), reprisal, retribution, repayment, revenge, punishment

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 2 votes

  1. retaliationnoun

    Synonyms:
    revenge, requital, retribution

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#12760repayment
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#23183retaliation
#33262retribution
#57902reprisal
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#73403avenging
#76194victimisation
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How to use retaliation in a sentence?

  1. Rex Tillerson:

    (Beijing's) economic retaliation against South Korea is inappropriate and troubling.

  2. Ezeugo Nnamdi Lawrence:

    With regards to food, and other daily home needs that might prompt anyone to go out, we are working towards creating a system to ensure that supplies gets across to you all, please maintain and keep the peace, and discourage any form of retaliation towards Indians.

  3. Joseph Giacalone:

    So, the main thing that you have to lean on is you have to stop the violence because violence begets violence, and if you're letting people out with no bail, with illegal firearms or there's a shooting and people don't go to jail for them, the chance of retaliation becomes greater. And I think that's what we're seeing here.

  4. John Hultquist:

    If it were done in retaliation we'd expect some sort of follow on disruption or destruction of it, which we didn't see. Typically, when we see cyber espionage actors, they prefer to stay quiet and remain on target where they can gather as much intelligence as possible.

  5. James Green:

    I think the Chinese in the end will want to keep negotiations going. The question is: where do they go for retaliation?


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