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verb retaliate (against somebody/something) to retaliate against an attack对攻击进行还击 retaliate (by doing something/with something) The boy hit his sister, who retaliated by kicking him. 男孩打了他妹妹，妹妹则回敬了他一脚。 The police were pelted with stones and retaliated with tear gas. Ukraine threatened to retaliate by closing oil pipelines. The demonstrators retaliated by throwing stones and bricks. The police retaliated with tear gas. They threatened to retaliate against the British. |