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reprisal

Reprisal is an act of using force or causing injury for vengeance. (noun)

An example of reprisal is when one country bombs another to retaliate for that country's earlier military hostilities.

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See reprisal in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See reprisal in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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