Roget's Thesaurus

#718. Retaliation

Nouns

retaliation, reprisal, retort, payback; counter-stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project; retribution, lex talionis [Lat.]; reciprocation etc. (reciprocity) 12. tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous. recrimination etc. (accusation) 938; revenge etc. 919; compensation etc. 30; reaction etc. (recoil) 277.

Verbs

retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate etc. 148; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo etc. n., give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores. serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a Tartar.

Adjectives

retaliating etc. v.; retaliatory, retaliative; talionic.

Adverbs

in retaliation; en revanche.

Phrases

mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat.] [Horace]; par pari refero [Lat.] [Terence]; tu quoque [Lat.], you too; you're another; suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo [Lat.]; a beau jeu beau retour [Fr.]; lite resolvit [Lat.] [Horace].