| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| retaliate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·tal·i·ate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -t l  - t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: re·tal·i·at·ed, re·tal·i·at·ing, re·tal·i·ates
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To return like for like, especially evil for evil. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To pay back (an injury) in kind. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin retlire, retlit- : Latin re-, re- + Latin tli , punishment in kind; see tel - in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | re·tali·ation —NOUN
re·tali·ative, re·tali·a·tory (--tôr, -tr) —ADJECTIVE
re·tali·ator —NOUN
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