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reprisals

reprisals is the plural of reprisal.

Meaning of reprisal

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...

Questions about reprisals

What is reprisals the plural of?
Reprisals is the plural of reprisal.

Words near reprisals in the dictionary

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

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