GET BACK AT meaning: Seek revenge or retaliate against - OneLook

Usually means: Seek revenge or retaliate against.

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get back at, get back at (someone): Merriam-Webster
get back at: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
get back at: Wiktionary
get back at: Dictionary.com
get back at: TheFreeDictionary.com
get back at: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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get back at: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (get back at)

▸ verb: (idiomatic) To retaliate against; to take revenge on.

Similar:

take revenge, get back, pay back, revenge, requite, retaliate, avenge, reciprocate, serve out, have someone to rights, more...

Opposite:

forgive, pardon, reconcile

Phrases:

to get back at someone, get back at you, more...

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Similar:

take revenge, get back, pay back, revenge, requite, retaliate, avenge, reciprocate, serve out, have someone to rights, more...

Opposite:

forgive, pardon, reconcile

Phrases:

to get back at someone, get back at you, more...

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