Associations to the word «Retaliate»

Wiktionary

RETALIATE, verb. (intransitive) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
RETALIATE, verb. (transitive) To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.

Dictionary definition

RETALIATE, verb. Take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother".
RETALIATE, verb. Make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King