oplácet — meaning in English
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English meaning
- reciprocate verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
- retaliate verb To respond to harm done to you by causing harm in return.
- revenge noun Harm done to someone in return for a wrong they committed against you.
Senses
oplácet is used for these senses in English:
- reciprocate (transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
- retaliate (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.
- revenge (transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
- revenge (transitive, reflexive) To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).
reciprocate — full definition
- verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
- verb Of machinery, to move back and forth repeatedly, like a piston.