Retaliate is defined as 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.
See retaliate in Webster's New World College Dictionary
intransitive verb retaliated, retaliating
Origin: < LL retaliatus, pp. of retaliare, to require, retaliate < L re-, back + talio, punishment in kind, akin to Welsh tāl, compensation
transitive verb
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See retaliate in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb re·tal·i·at·ed, re·tal·i·at·ing, re·tal·i·ates verb, intransitive
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Origin: Late Latin retāliāre, retāliāt-
Origin: : Latin re-, re-
Origin: + Latin tāliō, punishment in kind; see telə- in Indo-European roots
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