| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The act of retaliating: counteraction, counterattack, counterblow, reciprocation, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, tit for tat, vengeance. Idioms: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, like for like , measure for measure . See ATTACK, FORGIVENESS. 2. The quality or condition of being vindictive: spite, spitefulness, vengefulness, vindictiveness. See FORGIVENESS.
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