retaliation

Roget-categorie 718

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.4. Antagonism
›› 5.4.2. Active antagonism

#718. Retaliation

zelfstandig naamwoord

retaliation, reprisal, retort, payback — counter-stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project — retribution, lex talionis [Lat.] — reciprocation etc. (reciprocity) 12.
tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play — reproof valiant, retort courteous.
recrimination etc. (accusation) 938 — revenge etc. 919 — compensation etc. 30 — reaction etc. (recoil) 277.

werkwoord

retaliate, retort, turn upon — pay, pay off, pay back — pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin — cap — reciprocate etc. 148 — turn the tables upon, return the compliment — give a quid pro quo etc. n., give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets — give and take, exchange fisticuffs — be quits, be even with — pay off old scores.
serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a Tartar.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

retaliating etc. v. — retaliatory, retaliative — talionic^†.

bijwoord

in retaliation — en revanche.

uitdrukking

mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat.] [Horace]; par pari refero [Lat.] [Terence]; tu quoque [Lat.], you too — you're another — suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo [Lat.] — a beau jeu beau retour [Fr.] — litem ?? [Lat.].
lite resolvit [Lat.] [Horace].

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