retaliator

Thân thiện

A shopkeeper stands firm as the local retaliator confronts the thief.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Someone who takes vengeance: A person who responds to an injury, offense, or harmful action by inflicting a corresponding harm in return. A retaliator seeks to repay a wrong with a similar wrong.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The company was known as a fierce retaliator against patent infringement.
  • He was not merely a victim but became a retaliator, seeking his own form of justice.
  • In the cycle of violence, each retaliator fuels the conflict further.

Advanced Usage

• "Acting as a retaliator": Describing the state or action of engaging in retaliation.
  • By firing back immediately, he was acting as a retaliator rather than seeking diplomatic solutions.

Variants and Related Words

• Retaliate (verb): To make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack.
  • The nation vowed to retaliate with force.
• Retaliation (noun): The action of returning a military attack; counterattack.
  • The attack was feared to provoke severe retaliation.
• Retaliatory (adjective): Characterized by a desire for retaliation.
  • The government imposed retaliatory tariffs.

Synonyms

• Avenger: One who inflicts harm in return for a wrong.
• Vengeance-seeker: One who pursues retribution.
• Punisher: One who imposes a penalty for an offense.

Related Phrases

• "An eye for an eye": An idiom describing the principle of retaliation where the punishment corresponds in kind and degree to the offense.
  • He believed in the philosophy of "an eye for an eye," which made him a natural retaliator.

Học thuật

Noun

1. someone who takes vengeance

Từ đồng nghĩa

• avenger