Reprimand vs Retaliate - What's the difference?
reprimand | retaliate |
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.
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 reprimand and retaliate
is that reprimand is to reprove in a formal or official way 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.As a noun reprimand
is a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.reprimand
English
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 * reproveretaliate
English
Verb
(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.