retaliate

Other forms of retaliate

past tense

retaliated·

present participle

retaliating·

third person

retaliates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about retaliate

What does retaliate mean?

retaliate means "take revenge for a perceived wrong". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in retaliate?

retaliate has 4 syllables: re-tal-i-ate. The stress falls on "tal". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈtæliˌeɪt/.

What is another word for retaliate?

Close synonyms include revenge, avenge, strike back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is retaliate a common word?

retaliate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with retaliate?

95 words rhyme with retaliate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.