Reciprocate vs Neglect - What's the difference?
reciprocate | neglect |
To mutually give and take something; to interchange.
To give something in response.
To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
* Dryden
To counter, retort or retaliate.
(label) To fail to care for or attend to something.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
(label) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
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, title= The act of neglecting.
The state of being neglected.
Habitual lack of care.
As verbs the difference between reciprocate and neglect
is that reciprocate is to mutually give and take something; to interchange while neglect is (label) to fail to care for or attend to something.As a noun neglect is
the act of neglecting.reciprocate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, / And draws and blows reciprocating air.
neglect
English
Verb
(en verb)- I hope / My absence doth neglect no great designs.
- This, my long suffering and my day of grace, / Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
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