Retaliate is valid Scrabble Word

Is retaliate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is retaliate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for RETALIATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to repay in kind
make an attack in return for a similar attack
repay (an injury or insult) in kind
repay an injury or wrong in kind
To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]
To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
take revenge for a perceived wrong
make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to repay (as an injury) in kind

Words related to RETALIATE

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Words that contain RETALIATE

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How to use RETALIATE in a sentence

He did not retaliate, but consoled himself with the thought that he had done his duty, to God and society, by marrying his daughter, whatever fate might await him.
The sophomores had been rushed by the freshmen, and they resolved to retaliate in a similar manner.
He was a great, weary, passionate child, whose pride had been stung, who but awaited an opportunity to retaliate.
The Cumberland people were irritated beyond endurance, alike by the ravages of these Indians and by the conduct of the United States in forbidding them to retaliate.
The beast tried to retaliate by biting, but only struck the sharp point of its mouth upon the shield.
The Thebans, on their side, desiring to retaliate, marched out with their whole force into the territory of Thespiae.
The Romans could neither successfully defend themselves nor effectively retaliate.
The Boers retaliate with a similar charge against us in Modder River.
But an angry man has no time to weigh his words, and, as I said, poor old Derrick was very human, and when wounded too intolerably could on occasion retaliate.
In that event his pride would force him to retaliate, until he was either killed or captured.

As far as fearing any publicity with which Brown could retaliate, Enoch felt immune.
He felt, probably, that if he attacked me I might retaliate unpleasantly.
A man who ventures into the throng of competitors without a skin will be tortured by every touch, and suffer the more if he turns to retaliate.
But when the opportunity came Ken always felt so little and mean that he could not retaliate.
No sooner had this been done, than the Austrians arrested my courier contrary to international law, and compelled me to retaliate.
She would retaliate by reading aloud a Special in regard to a Husband going after Wife with Axe, while under the Influence of Liquor.
If I should accuse Dorgan, he might retaliate by telling what he knew of me.
He takes work which no white man in a new country will handle, and when kicked by the mean white will not grossly retaliate.
A circular telegram was published announcing an intention to retaliate by the execution of prisoners of war in case any more were assassinated by insurgents for political reasons.
Retaliate upon them, and capture their rafts and weapons.
He wrote at once to Sir Guy Carleton, and informed him that unless the murderers were given up he should be compelled to retaliate.
We naturally resent, repel, and retaliate, any harm done to ourselves and to any one that engages our sympathies.
Calhoun is endeavoring to show that Europe will at length retaliate by placing high duties upon American cotton and rice.
It is only rarely that one has an opportunity to retaliate, but the desire for retaliation is a soul-destroying disease.
Aroused from the stupor of the famine, the peasants had to retaliate with the same old defensive policy of outrage.
Watts, that Maheine, the chief of Eimeo, to retaliate the mischief done him by Capt.
Europe was compelled to retaliate, by purchasing grain in Russia, British India, New Zealand, South America, and Australia.
This is the notion of all who retaliate upon others either privately or publicly.
Uncle William even threatened to retaliate by starting an opposition dance house at Ghost Rock.
This induced the latter states to retaliate, by passing laws partial to themselves and injurious to the former.

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