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What is the noun for retaliate?

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retaliation
  1. Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
  2. An act of minor revenge
  3. An act of violent response.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Feeling indignant that he was not taken into his tutor's confidence, he set his wits to work to devise some proper retaliation for the slight.”
      “Those that shun or oppose this unfortunate but justified retaliation perhaps are blind to reality for some reason, and that in itself is sad.”
      “In retaliation, she poisoned the birthday cake of his nine-year-old daughter by adulterating the batter with juice from oleander leaves.”
retaliationism
retaliator
  1. One who retaliates.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Those recommendations may include disciplinary actions to be taken against the retaliator.”
      “The Internet is made up of countless interconnected devices, and any innocent routers between the attacker and retaliator would suffer at least twice in a counterstrike.”
      “Because the pitcher has the right to act as instigator, enforcer or retaliator, he is the key to how the sentencing is brought down.”
retaliations
retaliators
  1. plural of retaliator
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As Red told me personally right when I came in, we need instigators, not retaliators.”
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