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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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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#8299revenge
#12760repayment
#16279vengeance
#23183retaliation
#33262retribution
#57902reprisal
#60764retaliatory
#63214reprisals
#73403avenging
#76194victimisation
#149491reciprocation
#307426requital

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  1. James Highsmith:

    One of the most deadly parts about a shooting is the retaliation, cause when it comes back…it’s not that they’re just shooting at one person. The way things are today, they go at the whole block. So if you live on that block, then they shooting at you.

  2. Mike Pompeo:

    There are claims that this was for retaliation, for some investigation that the inspector general's office here was engaged in. Patently false. I have no sense of what investigations were taking place inside the inspector general's office, there is one exception. I was asked a series of questions in writing. I responded to those questions with respect to a particular investigation. That was some time earlier this year.

  3. Tommy Xie:

    We think China is unlikely to engineer 25% depreciation to counter the impact of tariff as the cost of capital outflows amid the shrinking current account surplus may outweigh the benefit of supporting export, the pressure on RMB depreciation may depend on three near-term factors including the size of China's retaliation package, U.S.'s plan to impose tariff on the remaining $325 billion products and market's assessment on whether the setback is temporary or not.

  4. Richard Mendelson:

    Lone Star Western Beef punished an employee for seeking emergency medical care for a seriously injured co-worker, no worker should have to fear retaliation from their employer for calling 911 in an emergency, or taking other action to report a workplace safety or health incident.

  5. Ron Johnson:

    Instead of trying to improve communications, Ron Johnson said, it appears ICE and its parent agency, DHS, are trying to root out Ron Johnson source. Ron Johnson believes the whistleblowers could face retribution for the revelation. The federal government has a very poor record of retaliation, we’ve held numerous hearings about this. It is really quite shocking how often the federal government retaliates. But I certainly will not stand for it, and I certainly don’t think this committee will stand for any retribution against those who had the courage to come forward to reveal this incident. Federal law expressly protects federal employees who provide information to Congress. In the Dec. 3 incident, USCIS agents were investigating Marquez for marriage fraud, stemming from his 2014 union with Mariya Chernykh, a Russian national married to Farook’s brother. Rodriguez told Johnson’s committee that it was a mistake for his agency’s San Bernardino office to refuse entry to ICE investigators.


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