Definitions For Retaliating

verb

  • To do something bad to someone who has hurt you or treated you badly : to get revenge against someone

Is Retaliating 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
12
Words with Friends
15

The word Retaliating is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Retaliating 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

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