Associations to the word «Retaliation»

Wiktionary

RETALIATION, noun. Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
RETALIATION, noun. An act of violent response.

Dictionary definition

RETALIATION, noun. Action taken in return for an injury or offense.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King