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Definition

a retaliatory action — typically against an individual or group

(A retaliatory action is one taken to harm someone who previously harmed you.)

The citizens are afraid to report crime because of fear of reprisal.

The rebels said they executed the prisoners in reprisal for the assassination of the rebel leader.
In 2001, the widely scattered threats and acts of reprisal against Muslim and Arab Americans had no encouragement from national or local media.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
As if by way of reprisal five or six shots from the opposite house knocked more splinters off the shutter.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
They resulted in reprisals.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
The threats, spoken and unspoken, about reprisals against those who supported me increased each day.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
An idea, when violated, cannot make reprisals.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
He killed him as a reprisal, out of revenge because it was our family that had caught him with the Queen.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
You decide whether it would be wise to adopt a strategy that would invite reprisals.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
His fear of reprisal against his only remaining family crippled him.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Long-lost cousin, ain't you!" she cried at me, and gave me the same kiss she had given Kate-a sort of reprisal-kiss.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
They begged us not to take vengeance against the children, to put aside reprisals.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
Some believed it, but kept silent for fear of reprisal.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
I am on fire To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh, And yet not ours.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1
Small attacks by Tutsis in exile led to larger and larger reprisals by the new Hutu authorities.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
There is nothing, except venomous reprisals, that cravens who fled their freshman year could cast on the history of the Institute.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Epernon reeks of a Jackal reprisal.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
After my parents' visit to America I could telephone them in China and write to them, freely, without fear of reprisal, and I could send them money too.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
I will not, by giving it up, lose my right of some time or other making reprisals on my adversaries.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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