retaliate
to hit back
TRANSLATION
retaliate = Vergeltung üben --- GOOGLE INDEX retaliate: approximately 10,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Taliban to RETALIATE against UN
(BBC News Headline)
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"This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to RETALIATE. He butted me on the head. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me."
- former boxer Mike Tyson after biting the ear of an opponent during a fight
(BBC News Headline)
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"This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to RETALIATE. He butted me on the head. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me."
- former boxer Mike Tyson after biting the ear of an opponent during a fight
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retaliate
verb
- to hurt someone or do something harmful to them because they have done or said something harmful to you
retaliation
noun
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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An Irishman retaliates
An Irishman, an Englishman and a beautiful young woman are sitting together in a carriage in a train. Suddenly the trains goes through a tunnel. It was an old train, which meant there were no lights. It was completely dark.
Suddenly there a kissing noise and the sound of a loud slap. When the train came out of the tunnel, the young woman and the Irishman were sitting as if nothing had happened. The Englishman had his hand against his face where there was a big red spot.
The Englishman was thinking, "The Irish fellow must have kissed that women and she missed him and slapped me instead."
The woman thought, "The Englishman must have tried to kiss me and actually kissed the Irishman and got slapped for it."
And the Irishman thought, "This is fun. The next time the train goes through a tunnel, I'll make another kissing noise and slap that English bloke again!"
Etymology: from the past participle stem of the Latin retaliare, meaning "to pay back in kind."
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SYNONYMS
get even, exact revenge, pay back, even the score, reciprocate, repay, take revenge, tit for tat
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Retaliating may even the score, but seldom solves the underlying problem."
verb
- to hurt someone or do something harmful to them because they have done or said something harmful to you
retaliation
noun
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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An Irishman retaliates
An Irishman, an Englishman and a beautiful young woman are sitting together in a carriage in a train. Suddenly the trains goes through a tunnel. It was an old train, which meant there were no lights. It was completely dark.
Suddenly there a kissing noise and the sound of a loud slap. When the train came out of the tunnel, the young woman and the Irishman were sitting as if nothing had happened. The Englishman had his hand against his face where there was a big red spot.
The Englishman was thinking, "The Irish fellow must have kissed that women and she missed him and slapped me instead."
The woman thought, "The Englishman must have tried to kiss me and actually kissed the Irishman and got slapped for it."
And the Irishman thought, "This is fun. The next time the train goes through a tunnel, I'll make another kissing noise and slap that English bloke again!"
Etymology: from the past participle stem of the Latin retaliare, meaning "to pay back in kind."
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SYNONYMS
get even, exact revenge, pay back, even the score, reciprocate, repay, take revenge, tit for tat
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Retaliating may even the score, but seldom solves the underlying problem."
