— reciprocative, reciprocatory /ri sip"reuh keuh tawr'ee, -tohr'ee/ , adj. — reciprocator , n.
/ri sip"reuh kayt'/ , v. , reciprocated, reciprocating .
v.t.
1. to give, feel, etc., in return.
2. to give and receive reciprocally; interchange: to reciprocate favors.
3. to cause to move alternately backward and forward.
v.i.
4. to make a return, as for something given.
5. to make interchange.
6. to be correspondent.
7. to move alternately backward and forward.
[ 1605-15; reciprocatus ptp. of reciprocare to move back and forth. See RECIPROCAL, -ATE 1 ]
Syn. 1. return, respond, retaliate.