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reprisal

/ɹɪˈpɹaɪzəl/

reprisal noun: an act of retaliation.

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Noun

reprisal (countable and uncountable, plural reprisals)

  1. An act of retaliation.
  2. (archaic) Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.
  3. (archaic) The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity.
    • debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans...

reprisal meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

reprisal in Tamil

பதிலடி

reprisal in Urdu

انتقام, انتقامی کاروائی

reprisal in Bengali

প্রতিশোধ, পাল্টা আক্রমণ

reprisal in Malayalam

പകരം ചോദിക്കൽ, പ്രതികാരനടപടി, നഷ്ടപരിഹാരം
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reprisal in Kannada
ಪ್ರತೀಕಾರ, ಸೇಡು, ಮುಯ್ಯಿಗೆ ಮುಯ್ಯಿ, ಮುಯ್ಯೆಸಕ

Forms of reprisal

pluralreprisals

Plural of reprisal: reprisals

Origin of reprisal

From Anglo-Norman reprisaille (French représaille), from Old Italian ripresaglia (Italian rappresaglia), from ripreso, past participle of riprendere (“to take back”), from Latin reprendere, earlier reprehendere (see reprehend).

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Phrases with reprisal

Words that rhyme with reprisal

Questions about reprisal

What does reprisal mean?
Reprisal means an act of retaliation.
What is reprisal in Tamil?
Reprisal in Tamil is பதிலடி. See Reprisal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is reprisal?
Reprisal is a noun.
How do you pronounce reprisal?
Reprisal is pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪzəl/.
What is the plural of reprisal?
The plural of reprisal is reprisals.

Words near reprisal in the dictionary

  1. reprioritize
  2. reprioritized
  3. reprioritizes
  4. reprioritizing
  5. reprisable
  6. reprisal
  7. reprisals
  8. reprise
  9. reprised
  10. reprises
  11. reprising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reprisal (page history and authors); reprisal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reprisal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reprisal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reprisal (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reprisal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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