Definition of Retaliate

Retaliate

To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]

To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.

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Retaliate Quotations

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.
Edward James Olmos

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
Alan Greenspan

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
John Foster Dulles

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Retaliate Translations

retaliate in German is vergelten
retaliate in Spanish is desquitarse

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