Retaliation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETALIATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of retaliating
• the action of returning a military attack; counter-attack
• the action of harming someone because they have harmed oneself; revenge
• The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
• action taken in return for an injury or offense
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to repay (as an injury) in kind

Words related to RETALIATION

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Words that contain RETALIATION

retaliations12 retaliationist14 retaliationists15 counterretaliation20 counterretaliations21

How to use RETALIATION in a sentence

• First the Tory party was being hard hit by the Edinburgh Review and there was need of defense and retaliation.
• In my opinion, retaliation is a double-edged weapon.
• And who is to give effect to retaliation? It is too much to expect an English Government to adopt effective retaliation against their own people.
• If redress cannot be obtained by remonstrance, arbitration, or other peaceful means, it may be sought through retaliation or finally in war.
• The Swedes, in retaliation, went farther up the river and fortified an island near the mouth of the Schuylkill.
• His formidable apparatus not only suited his instinct of freedom, but perhaps also the design of some terrible retaliation.
• He no longer dared to treat him ignominiously, lest his brother should be provoked to some desperate act of retaliation.
• Retaliation came in the shape of an assault upon Dumfries in the end of June, and the Scots, with Douglas at their head, burned Warkworth in July.
• Virginia was forbidden to close her ports to North Carolina lest there should be retaliation.
• Often the members were fired upon from bushes or behind trees, and swift retaliation followed.
• To prevent retaliation, the gens of the offender must take the necessary steps to disprove the crime, or to compound or punish it.
• The finest things he has left behind him in verse are his character of a country school-master, and that prophetic description of Burke in the Retaliation.
• They had suffered too many unprovoked insults at their hands not to desire the avenging of their wrongs and to punish them by way of retaliation.
• Ella did all that it was possible to do to meet and oppose them, but the spirit of retaliation and rage which his cruelties had evoked was too strong to be resisted.
• I seriously consider not waiting for your next move, but of making use of this in retaliation for what you have done to me.
• Retaliation, to be equal, will have the air of extreme severity and hostility.
• Within an hour after this was known to the Senate, they passed the retaliation bill, of which I enclose you a copy.
• The troops of congress shortly after made some retaliation.
• His accession to the throne, however, gave Caroline an opportunity of retaliation, which, as will be seen, she was not backward in exercising.
• This unfortunately gave rise to the work of retaliation.
• Up went their rockets calling to their artillery for retaliation.
• The world of human happiness had closed its doors upon him, and his whole spirit and body demanded a fierce retaliation.
• Sobbing inwardly, I accepted this divine retaliation in silence, and rested a while in that loving, warm embrace.
• Bruus will probably seek retaliation, but we have law and justice in the land to order such matters.
• Nothing could be done by the two tribunes except to be resolute and watch for an opportunity for retaliation.
• Let us borrow an illustration from the railways, if only by way of retaliation, as it were, for the loans which they levy upon us.
• France, meanwhile, sought retaliation upon England at the expense of the Americans.
• But the impulse was merely the first reckless one of retaliation.

Similar words containing TALIA without suffix tion and without prefix re

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