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- Dictionaryre·tal·i·ate/rəˈtalēˌāt/
verb
- 1. make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack: "the blow stung and she retaliated immediately"
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The meaning of RETALIATE is to return like for like; especially : to get revenge. How to use retaliate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Retaliate.
RETALIATE definition: 1. to hurt someone or do something harmful to someone because they have done or said something…. Learn more.
To retaliate means to get back at someone, usually through a counterattack. “Ned got hit with a cream pie, then he retaliated by throwing a bucket of Jell-O at his attackers.”
Retaliate definition: to return like for like, especially evil for evil. See examples of RETALIATE used in a sentence.
vb. 1. (intr) to take retributory action, esp by returning some injury or wrong in kind. 2. (intr) to cast (an accusation) back upon a person. 3. (tr) rare to avenge (an injury, wrong, etc) [C17: from Late Latin retāliāre, from Latin re- + tālis of such kind] reˌtaliˈationn. reˈtaliative, reˈtaliatoryadj. reˈtaliˌatorn.
If you retaliate when someone harms or annoys you, you do something which harms or annoys them in return.
retaliate (against somebody/something) to retaliate against an attack; retaliate (by doing something/with something) The boy hit his sister, who retaliated by kicking him.
