Usually means: Responding to harm with harm.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word retaliating:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaliating: Merriam-Webster
  2. retaliating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retaliating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Retaliating, retaliating: Wordnik
  5. retaliating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retaliating: Wiktionary
  7. Retaliating, retaliating: Dictionary.com
  8. retaliating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Retaliating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Retaliating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. retaliating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. retaliating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. retaliating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaliating: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. retaliating: Legal dictionary

(Note: See retaliate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retaliate)

verb:  (intransitive) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
verb:  (transitive) To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.
▸ Also see retaliate


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