1) Act of retaliation 2) Collective punishment 3) Counterattack 4) Counterblow 5) EP by Australian artist 6) Evil for evil 7) Eye for an eye 8) French word used in English 9) Payback 10) Payback of a sort 11) Payback of sorts 12) Retaliation 13) Retaliatory act 14) Retribution 15) Revenge 16) Revenge tactic
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1) Retaliation 2) Revenge 3) Vengeance
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A reprisal is a limited and deliberate violation of international law to punish another sovereign state that has already broken them. Reprisals in the laws of war are extremely limited, as they commonly breached the rights of non-combatants, an action outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. It is not to be confused with retorsions, as these constitute...
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• (n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity. • (n.) The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. • (n.) Any act of retaliation. • (n.) Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.Reprisal: words in the defini...
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(from the article `war, law of`) There is here a very fine line dividing anticipatory self-defense, which may be legally permissible, from reprisal, the prime object of which is to ...
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Re·pris'al noun [ French
repr...saille , Italian
ripresaglia ,
rappresaglia , Late Latin
reprensaliae , from Latin
reprehendere ,
reprehensum . See
Reprehend ,
Reprise .]
1. The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or ind...
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n] - a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
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noun a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
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a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
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a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
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[Modern words] a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
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