Retaliate vs Reprise - What's the difference?
retaliate | reprise |
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
A recurrence or resumption of an action.
(music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
(fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position.
A taking by way of retaliation.
(legal, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
(obsolete) To take (something) up or on again.
* , II.xi:
To repeat or resume an action
(obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
As verbs the difference between retaliate and reprise
is that 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 while reprise is .retaliate
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.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* retaliation * retaliative * retaliatoryExternal links
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*reprise
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Noun
(wikipedia reprise) (en noun)- (Dryden)
- (Burrill)
Verb
(repris)- How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize .