retaliate
41retaliative — retaliate ► VERB ▪ make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack. DERIVATIVES retaliation noun retaliative adjective retaliator noun retaliatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin retaliare return in kind …
42retaliator — retaliate ► VERB ▪ make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack. DERIVATIVES retaliation noun retaliative adjective retaliator noun retaliatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin retaliare return in kind …
43retaliatory — retaliate ► VERB ▪ make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack. DERIVATIVES retaliation noun retaliative adjective retaliator noun retaliatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin retaliare return in kind …
44hit back — RETALIATE, respond, reply, react, counter, defend oneself. → hit * * * hit back [phrasal verb] : to attack or criticize someone who has attacked or criticized you If you hit me, I ll hit back. The team hit back with a touchdown of their own.… …
45pay someone back in his or her own coin — retaliate with similar behavior …
46Monster infighting — is a term popularized by the FPS games in the Doom series and other similar games released in the 1990s. It occurs when two or more of the computer controlled opponents accidentally attack each other and then retaliate, causing a string of back… …
47deterrence — /di terr euhns, tur , ter /, n. the act of deterring, esp. deterring a nuclear attack by the capacity or threat of retaliating. [1860 65; DETERR(ENT) + ENCE] * * * Military strategy whereby one power uses the threat of reprisal to preclude an… …
48Jene Newsome — was a United States Air Force sergeant who was honorably discharged after 9 years of service under the Don t Ask, Don t Tell policy. She was outed by the Rapid City Police Department on November 24, 2009 after they saw an Iowa marriage license on …
49reciprocate — reciprocate, retaliate, requite, return can mean to give back usually in kind or in quantity. Reciprocate may imply a mutual, equivalent, or roughly equivalent, exchange or a paying back of what one has received. The connotations of alternating… …
50strike back — verb make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil The Empire strikes back The Giants struck back and won the opener The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing • Syn: ↑retaliate • Derivationally related forms:… …
