To return like for like; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
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1. To return like for like; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind as has been received. It is now seldom used except in a bad sense, that is, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate injuries. In war, enemies often retaliate the death or inhuman treatment of prisoners, the burning of towns or the plunder of goods.
To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]
Returned, as like for like.
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Interchange Roget’s Thesaurus §148
N. interchange, # exchange, commutation, permutation, intermutation, reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement, shuffling, alternation, reciprocity, castling, hocus-pocus, interchangeableness, interchangeability, recombination, combination 48, 84, barter, tit for tat, cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock, quid pro quo
V. interchange, exchange, counterchange, bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute, give and take, return the compliment, play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock, retaliate, requite, rearrange, recombine
Adj. interchanged, substituted, reciprocal, vicarious, mutual, subdititious, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent, combinatorial, recombinant
Adv. in exchange, instead, vice versa, in place of, mutatis mutandis, in lieu of, backwards and forwards, in the stead of, by turns, in the room of, turn and turn about, faute de mieux, each in his turn, 2, everyone in his turn, complex change
Retaliation Roget’s Thesaurus §718
N. retaliation, reprisal, retort, payback, counter-stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project, retribution, lex talionis, reciprocation, tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a roland for an oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play, reproof valiant, retort courteous, recrimination, revenge, compensation, reaction
V. retaliate, retort, turn upon, pay, pay off, pay back, pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin, cap, reciprocate, turn the tables upon, return the compliment, give a quid pro quo, give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets, give and take, exchange fisticuffs, be quits, be even with, pay off old scores, serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a tartar
Adv. in retaliation, en revanche
Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur, par pari refero, tu quoque, you're another, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo, a beau jeu beau retour, litem, lite resolvit
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0 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “retaliate”
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.