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English
Etymology
From retaliate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
retaliation (usually uncountable, plural retaliations)
- 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:Hamas knew there would be massive retaliations.
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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)
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