retaliate
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- verb
Synonyms for retaliate
pay someone back
Synonyms
- pay someone back
- hit back
- strike back
- reciprocate
- take revenge
- get back at someone
- get even with
- even the score
- get your own back
- wreak vengeance
- exact retribution
- give as good as you get
- take an eye for an eye
- make reprisal
- give (someone) a taste of his or her own medicine
- give tit for tat
- return like for like
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Synonyms for retaliate
to return like for like, especially to return an unfriendly or hostile action with a similar one
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Synonyms for retaliate
take revenge for a perceived wrong
make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil
Synonyms
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