RETALIATORY


Meaning of RETALIATORY in English

If you take ~ action, you try to harm or annoy someone who has harmed or annoyed you. (FORMAL)

There’s been talk of a ~ blockade to prevent supplies getting through.

ADJ: usu ADJ n

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