#retaliation__revenge action taken in return for an injury or offense
supertype: paying_back__return__getting_even__gettingeven a reciprocal group action; "in return we gave them as good as we got"
subtype: vengeance__retribution the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"
subtype: reprisal a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
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