retaliate

Etymology
From, past participle of.

Verb

 * 1)  To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
 * John insulted Peter to retaliate for Peter's acid remark earlier.
 * Many companies have policies in place to prevent bosses from retaliating against allegations of harassment.
 * 1)  To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.
 * 2) * 1713-174, and,  Preface
 * It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.
 * It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:avenge

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, վրեժ լուծել
 * Bulgarian: отплащам се,
 * Catalan:, tornar mal per mal
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: oplatit, oplácet, odplatit, odplácet,, mstít se
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, vastata samalla mitalla
 * French:
 * Georgian: სამაგიეროს გადახდა
 * German: Vergeltung üben, sich rächen
 * Hebrew: עשה פעולת תגמול,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic: svara í sömu mynt, hefna sín, gjalda líku líkt
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, , vendicarsi
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: retalio
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: rautupu, rautipu
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish: mścić się
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:, tomar represalias
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Walloon:, si rvindjî