Retaliative: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.

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Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.

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Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.

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Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.

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To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

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To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

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To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]

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To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]

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Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.

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Alt. of Retributory

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Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.

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Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.