Reprimanded vs Retaliated - What's the difference?
reprimanded | retaliated |
(reprimand)
A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
* Macaulay
To reprove in a formal or official way.
* 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
(retaliate)
To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.
* Sir T. Herbert
* Jonathan Swift
As verbs the difference between reprimanded and retaliated
is that reprimanded is past tense of reprimand while retaliated is past tense of retaliate.reprimanded
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(head)reprimand
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Noun
(en noun)- Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
Verb
(en verb)- He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* admonish * admonition * rebuke * reprehend * reprehension * reproof * reproval * reproveretaliated
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Verb
(head)retaliate
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(retaliat)- John insulted Peter to retaliate for Peter's acid remark earlier.
- One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated .
- It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.