Definition of "retaliate"

retaliate

/ɹɪˈtæl.i.eɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present retaliates, present participle retaliating, simple past and past participle retaliated
1. (intransitive) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
2. (transitive) To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.
  Quotations
  One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated.
  1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome
  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.
  1713-174, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Preface