Word Meanings - RETALIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise

Additional info about word: RETALIATION

The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obloges himself to full retaliation. Calamy. Syn. -- Requital; reprisal; retribution; punishment.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETALIATION)

• Reprisal
• Retaliation
• retribution
• self-compensation
• self-indemnification
• Retort
• Rejoinder
• replicable
• repartee
• reciprocation
• retaliation
• reply
• answer
• Revenge
• vengeance
• requital
• Vengeance
• Retribution
• revenge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RETALIATION)

• Ignore
• drop
• pretermit
• pass
• disregard

Related words: (words related to RETALIATION)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• RETORTIVE
  Containing retort.
• PRETERMIT
  To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon.
• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• RECIPROCATION
  1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness. 2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. Sir T. Browne.
• RETORTION
  Retaliation. Wharton. (more info) 1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton.
• REPRISAL
  rappresaglia, LL. reprensaliae, fr. L. reprehendere, reprehensum. See 1. The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. Macaulay. 2. Anything taken
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• RETRIBUTION
  1. The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall. 2. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly,
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• ANSWERLESS
  Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• REPLYER
  See BACON
• ANSWERABLE
  1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
• IGNORE
  To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus. 3. Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly;
• DISREGARDFUL
  Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.
• DISREGARDER
  One who disregards.
• REPARTEE
  A smart, ready, and witty reply. Cupid was as bad as he; Hear but the youngster's repartee. Prior. Syn. -- Retort; reply. See Retort.
• REPLY
  To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref.
• UNANSWERABLE
  Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.
• PRETORTURE
  To torture beforehand. Fuller.
• SURREJOINDER
  The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.