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What does retaliating mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of retaliate
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Believing he was retaliating for the hit against Clay, tig killed the daughter of black gang leader Damon Pope.
On the weekend, several ministers in Olmert's cabinet inveighed against him and against Barak for not retaliating for Hamas' Qassam launches.
The Tribunal also found that the respondent had infringed the Act by retaliating against the complainant.
In the Ancient Near East when a person felt he was wronged it was his obligation to seek personal justice by retaliating in kind.
She believed the Council was angry that she had filed the first complaint and that it was retaliating against her.
This is the essence of crisis instability, when pre-empting pays far greater benefits than retaliating.

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