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 Retaliates 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
10
Words with Friends
11

The word Retaliate is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 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

Synonyms for Retaliate

Look up a Word

Search the dictionary for definitions, synonyms, antonyms, rhymes, and more!

Cite This Article

Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

WORD SCRAMBLE. THE WORD FINDER located on the website https://www.thewordfinder.com/