Definitions For Retaliation

noun

  • Action taken in return for an injury or offense

verb

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

Is Retaliations 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
14

The word Retaliation is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Retaliation 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 Retaliation

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