Retaliative
41vindictive — adj , vengeful, revengeful, avenging, vindicatory, vindicative; retributive, retributory, requiting, retaliatory, retaliative; spiteful, rancorous, venomous, malevolent, malicious, malignant, antagonistic, hostile, resentful, ill disposed;… …
42punitive — [adj] concerning punishment castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in retaliation, penal, punishing, punitory, retaliative, retaliatory, revengeful, vindictive; concept 319 Ant. beneficial, rewarding …
43retaliate — ► VERB ▪ make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack. DERIVATIVES retaliation noun retaliative adjective retaliator noun retaliatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin retaliare return in kind …
44retaliation — retaliate ► VERB ▪ make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack. DERIVATIVES retaliation noun retaliative adjective retaliator noun retaliatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin retaliare return in kind …
45retaliator — retaliate ► VERB ▪ make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack. DERIVATIVES retaliation noun retaliative adjective retaliator noun retaliatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin retaliare return in kind …
46retaliatory — retaliate ► VERB ▪ make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack. DERIVATIVES retaliation noun retaliative adjective retaliator noun retaliatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin retaliare return in kind …
47retaliate — [ri tal′ē āt΄] vi. retaliated, retaliating [< LL retaliatus, pp. of retaliare, to require, retaliate < L re , back + talio, punishment in kind, akin to Welsh tāl, compensation] to return like for like; esp., to return evil for evil; pay… …
48retaliate — v. 1 intr. repay an injury, insult, etc., in kind; attack in return; make reprisals. 2 tr. a (usu. foll. by upon) cast (an accusation) back upon a person. b repay (an injury or insult) in kind. Derivatives: retaliation n. retaliative adj.… …
49bloody shirt — noun : the blood stained shirt of a slain man used to incite vengeance for his death; broadly : a symbol used to inflame to anger or to retaliative action used specifically in the United States after the Civil War of any means employed to stir up …
