Definitions For Retaliate
verb
- Make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil
- Take revenge for a perceived wrong
- To do something bad to someone who has hurt you or treated you badly : to get revenge against someone
Is Retaliate a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
10
The word Retaliate is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Retaliate in a Sentence
- After the company announced plans to reduce benefits, the union threatened to retaliate by calling for a strike.
- retaliated his neighbor's malicious destruction of his flower garden by cutting down the man's prize apple tree