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retaliation  

  
an eye for an eye, a taste of one's own medicine, counterblow, counterstroke, reciprocation, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, revenge, tit for tat, vengeance  
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retaliate     ( retaliates    3rd person present)   ( retaliating    present participle)   ( retaliated    past tense & past participle  ) If you retaliate when someone harms or annoys you, you do something which harms or annoys them in return.      verb  
I was sorely tempted to retaliate...      V  
Christie retaliated by sending his friend a long letter detailing Carl's utter incompetence...      V by -ing  
The militia responded by saying it would retaliate against any attacks...      V against/for n  
They may retaliate with sanctions on other products if the bans are disregarded.      V with n  
   retaliation             n-uncount  
Police said they believed the attack was in retaliation for the death of the drug trafficker.     

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