retaliation

English

Etymology

From retaliate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹiˌtæl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˌtæl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ɹə-/, /ɹi-/, /-ʃɪn/

Noun

retaliation (usually uncountable, plural retaliations)

1. Violent or otherwise punitive response to an act of harm or perceived injustice; a hitting back; revenge.
   • 2009 January 13, “'Never again,' says survivor”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     Hamas knew there would be massive retaliations.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:revenge

Derived terms

• anticipatory retaliation
• antiretaliation
• massive retaliation
• nonretaliation

 

Related terms

• retaliate
• retaliatory

Translations

act of responding violently to an act of harm or perceived injustice

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: সেকা (xeka), পোটক (pütok)
• Bengali: প্রতিশোধ (bn) (protiśōdh)
• Bulgarian: възмездие (bg) n (vǎzmezdie), отмъщение (bg) n (otmǎštenie)
• Catalan: represàlia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 報復／报复 (zh) (bàofù)

• Czech: odplata f
• Danish: gengældelse c
• Dutch: vergelding (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kosto (fi), kostoisku
• French: représailles (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Vergeltung (de) f
• Hungarian: megtorlás (hu)
• Indonesian: pembalasan (id)
• Irish: díoltas m
• Italian: rappresaglia (it) f, ritorsione (it) f
• Japanese: 仕返し (ja) (しかえする, shikaeshi suru), 復讐 (ja) (ふくしゅう, fukushū)
• Korean: 복수(復讐) (ko) (boksu)
• Latin: talio (la) f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: ngakinga
• Marathi: प्रत्याघात m (pratyāghāt), बदला m (badlā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjengjeldelse (no) m

• Polish: odwet (pl) m, retaliacja f
• Portuguese: retaliação (pt) f, represália (pt)
• Romanian: represalii (ro) f pl
• Russian: возме́здие (ru) n (vozmézdije), воздая́ние (ru) n (vozdajánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìoghaltas m, aicheamhail f
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: represalia (es), retaliación (es) f
• Swedish: vedergällning (sv) c
• Tagalog: balik-taga
• Turkish: öç (tr), intikam (tr), misilleme (tr)
• Ukrainian: відпла́та f (vidpláta), пока́ра f (pokára)