Usually means: Retaliation through similar actions taken.
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  7. retortion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. retortion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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▸ noun:  Alternative form of retorsion [(law) An act of retaliation taken by one nation against another as a reprisal.]

Similar:
requital, reprisal, retort, reprise, retrusion, rerestitution, retroaction, repayment, counterreprisal, reattribution, more...

Opposite:
conciliation, appeasement, peacemaking

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Similar:
requital, reprisal, retort, reprise, retrusion, rerestitution, retroaction, repayment, counterreprisal, reattribution, more...

Opposite:
conciliation, appeasement, peacemaking



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