React vs Retaliate - What's the difference?
react | retaliate |
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
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 react and retaliate
is that react is to act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact while retaliate is to do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.react
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Derived terms
* reactive * reactorAnagrams
*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.