Usually means: To make repayment for wrongdoing.
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  1. retribute: Merriam-Webster
  2. retribute: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retribute: Wordnik
  4. retribute: Wiktionary
  5. Retribute: Dictionary.com
  6. Retribute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. retribute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Retribute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. retribute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. retribute: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Retribute: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite.

Similar:
return, repay, recompense, requite, restitute, yield, retaliate, recompensate, reanswer, reimburse, more...

Opposite:
forgive, pardon, absolve, excuse

Types:
revenge, payback, reciprocate, requital, more...

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Similar:
return, repay, recompense, requite, restitute, yield, retaliate, recompensate, reanswer, reimburse, more...

Opposite:
forgive, pardon, absolve, excuse

Types:
revenge, payback, reciprocate, requital, more...



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