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retaliate

Retaliate means to respond to a wrong by returning the wrong with an equally wrong action. (verb)

An example of to retaliate is for a person to punch someone who has hit him.

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See retaliate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See retaliate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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