retaliate

When Sheridan told him in February that she was fired, Meyer said he was “it struck me as retaliatory.”

His attack on young Whitefield had been fierce, almost savage; Whitefield's retaliatory attack was what?

If he had attacked one of the guards, even with his hands bound, he might have flustered the Throg into retaliatory blaster fire.

Their only retaliatory action was to shoot snipers when they were caught red-handed.

He had never conceived the possibility of getting the astute storekeeper into such a satisfactory, retaliatory position.

Retaliatory measures were taken by her government to compel the powers to see the advantage in this recognition.