retaliation
Meaning of retaliation
noun
Violent or otherwise punitive response to an act of harm or perceived injustice; a hitting back; revenge.
Information about retaliation
- It is a name.
- The plural form of retaliation is: retaliations.
- Languages in which retaliation is used:
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Hyphenation of retaliation
re-tal-i-a-tion
- It consists of 5 syllables and 11 chars.
- retaliation is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
retaliation synonyms
Meaning revenge:
Translation of retaliation
- German: Rache, Vergeltung
- French: vengeance, revanche, représailles, rétorsion, talion
- Italian: vendetta
- Portuguese: vingança
- Spanish: venganza, desquite, represalia, revancha
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