retaliate
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–verb (used without object)
1. to return like for like, esp. evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
–verb (used with object)
2. to requite or make return for (a wrong or injury) with the like.
This rich, powerful Ingmar Bergman film [charts] the frustrations and humiliations of several circus performers. The circus's portly owner, Albert (Ake Gronberg), [re]calls a humiliating incident involving the company's clown, Frost (Anders Ek), who discovered his wife, Alma (Gudrun Brost), swimming nude before a band of cheering soldiers.
portly
–adjective
1. rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
Having concluded his [re]collection, Albert visits his estranged wife, Agda (Annika Tretow), who realizes that he has made little money with his circus endeavor. While Albert endures the humiliating encounter with his wife, his jealous mistress,
Anne (Harriet Andersson), retaliates by yielding to a seductive local actor, Frans (Hasse Ekman), then realizes that she has been [ex]ploited and [de]based. Later, the drunken Frost informs Albert of Anne's sexual [in]discretion, whereupon Albert determines to thrash Anne's cynical lover.
rebate
Rebate offer subject to change.
He rebated [five dollars] to me.
The manufacturer is rebating this [air conditioner].
requite
1. make [repayment] or [return] for. [remunerate] [reimburse]
2. make [retaliation], avenge
That sibling break is exacer[b]ated by Accio's [un]requited [lust] for one of Manrico's disposable [girlfriends].
a prolonged [retaliatory] assault in which Maya transforms her pain into sadistic pleasure and sinks to Jared's level.
This last point is illustrated in Maya’s [retaliation] against Jared.
retribution
without personal motives
a [just] retribution for [wickedness].
When the deed is done, Von Sydow, a deeply religious man, begins to question the [efficacy] of a [God]
that would allow his daughter's death, then permit so bloody a [retribution].
reprisal
retaliation in warfare on enemy for its unlawful actions
to make a raid in reprisal for one by the [enemy].
vengeance
wrathful, vindictive revenge
[implacable] vengeance.
Convulsion
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–verb (used without object)
1. to return like for like, esp. evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
–verb (used with object)
2. to requite or make return for (a wrong or injury) with the like.
This rich, powerful Ingmar Bergman film [charts] the frustrations and humiliations of several circus performers. The circus's portly owner, Albert (Ake Gronberg), [re]calls a humiliating incident involving the company's clown, Frost (Anders Ek), who discovered his wife, Alma (Gudrun Brost), swimming nude before a band of cheering soldiers.
portly
–adjective
1. rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
Having concluded his [re]collection, Albert visits his estranged wife, Agda (Annika Tretow), who realizes that he has made little money with his circus endeavor. While Albert endures the humiliating encounter with his wife, his jealous mistress,
Anne (Harriet Andersson), retaliates by yielding to a seductive local actor, Frans (Hasse Ekman), then realizes that she has been [ex]ploited and [de]based. Later, the drunken Frost informs Albert of Anne's sexual [in]discretion, whereupon Albert determines to thrash Anne's cynical lover.
rebate
Rebate offer subject to change.
He rebated [five dollars] to me.
The manufacturer is rebating this [air conditioner].
requite
1. make [repayment] or [return] for. [remunerate] [reimburse]
2. make [retaliation], avenge
That sibling break is exacer[b]ated by Accio's [un]requited [lust] for one of Manrico's disposable [girlfriends].
a prolonged [retaliatory] assault in which Maya transforms her pain into sadistic pleasure and sinks to Jared's level.
This last point is illustrated in Maya’s [retaliation] against Jared.
retribution
without personal motives
a [just] retribution for [wickedness].
When the deed is done, Von Sydow, a deeply religious man, begins to question the [efficacy] of a [God]
that would allow his daughter's death, then permit so bloody a [retribution].
reprisal
retaliation in warfare on enemy for its unlawful actions
to make a raid in reprisal for one by the [enemy].
vengeance
wrathful, vindictive revenge
[implacable] vengeance.
Convulsion
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