Definitions For Retaliate

verb

  • Make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil
  • Take revenge for a perceived wrong
  • To do something bad to someone who has hurt you or treated you badly : to get revenge against someone

Is Retaliate a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
10

The word Retaliate is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Retaliate in a Sentence

  • After the company announced plans to reduce benefits, the union threatened to retaliate by calling for a strike.
  • retaliated his neighbor's malicious destruction of his flower garden by cutting down the man's prize apple tree

Synonyms for Retaliate

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