English-Portuguese translations for retaliate

• retaliar
  Putin considerou que Khodorkovsky desdenhou pessoalmente da sua pessoa, pelo que decidiu retaliar." Putin considered Khodorkovsky to have slighted him personally, so he retaliated.'
  No entanto, nós não queremos retaliar criando um ciclo de proteccionismo que a si próprio se derrotará. We do not want to retaliate though by creating a self-defeating cycle of protectionism.
  Importa que, caso se concretize aquela ameaça, a União Europeia possa retaliar de forma imediata restringindo de forma clara o acesso de produtos americanos ao mercado europeu. If the USA carries out its threat, it is essential that the EU should be able to retaliate immediately by clearly restricting the access of American products to the European market.

Definition of retaliate

• 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

Examples

• John insulted Peter to retaliate for Peters acid remark earlier.
• Many companies have policies in place to prevent bosses from retaliating against allegations of harassment.

Related words

• retaliation
• retaliatory
• retaliatory attack
• retaliatory strike
• retaliatory measure
• law of retaliation