- Act of retaliation - Retaliation - Retributive justice - Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an
offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or
unrestrained revenge. - Harm; mischief.
- According to a proverb, it is best served cold - Act of retaliation - Hit back - Retaliation - Tit for tat - To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult,
etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; --
followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing
wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object,
and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer. - To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or
malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.