Definition of reprisal in English:

reprisal

noun rɪˈprʌɪz(ə)lrəˈpraɪzəl

1An act of retaliation.
报复，报复行动
three youths died in the reprisals which followed
三个年轻人在随后的报复行动中丧生。
mass noun the threat of reprisal
实行报复的威胁。
Example sentencesExamples
- But tell me, hasn't the pharmaceutical industry fearing reprisals changed that somewhat, in fact, started policing itself, and toned down some of this stuff?
- By its lack of information, the text distances the - individual homicides from the history of reprisals that area prominent feature-of sectarian murders.
- The citadel was evacuated to avoid political reprisals in the 1780s, but civilians remained in the fortified town until its decline in the mid-nineteenth century.
- A gangland war erupts that sees assassination attempts, violent reprisals, and an ever-rising body count.
- The Allies, who were at one stage two days’ march from Paris, had circulated details of their planned reprisals, so that the Revolutionaries knew who was to be tortured to death and who merely imprisoned for life.
- She is panicked about possible reprisals at work because of her illness and absences, together with the fact that she is seeing a psychiatrist.
- Although that revolt failed, the brutal Ottoman reprisals, which killed 30,000 Bulgarians, drew Europe's attention to what had previously been considered an Ottoman backwater.
- No one was arrested in the 1983 incident, but professional reprisals did follow.
- Though the British as a whole supported the policy of reprisals, the toll of death and destruction in Berlin and other large cities caused misgivings and public questioning of the morality of ‘area’ bombing.
- Between the rants and reprisals the couple meet, and still unaware of their counterparts' real identities take a liking to one another.
- People rightly aren't willing to risk destroying their own careers if they sense there isn't sufficient protection from reprisals by their superiors.
- The reason that serious entertainment journalism only tends to exist in major outlets is that only major outlets can scare the system out of reprisals for their honesty.
- However, the key feature of such trust relations is an absence of opportunism, in that individual firms will not fear reprisals after any reorganization of interfirm relations.
- Zimmerman continues: ‘Those people to whom trade, growth and profit count most make the point that economic reprisals are inevitable.’
- Like Grandma, the two guerrillas had taken revolutionary names to bolster their morale and, in the advent of capture, to shield their villages and families from reprisals.
- Negotiations can consist of suggesting courses of action, threatening reprisals, offering to work together, showing or demanding to see cards, or anything at all.
- The other side of the coin is the individual's right to personal privacy and the right, of say human rights activists, to communicate online without fear of reprisals from repressive regimes needs to be protected.
- It turns out they are using the house to launch raids in the neighbourhood, prompting Mohammad's son Jamal to plot reprisals against the occupiers.
- Instantly, as if fearing reprisals, she lowered her head in a respectable, subservient manner and said nothing more as she bustled toward the door.
- The twentieth century saw many examples of arts playing a powerful political role, sometimes eliciting harsh reprisals and censorship, even death.
Synonyms
retaliation, counterattack, counterstroke, comeback
revenge, vengeance, retribution, requital, recrimination, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, tit for tat, getting even, redress, repayment, payback
Latin lex talionis
informal a taste of one's own medicine
rare ultion, a Roland for an Oliver
1. 1.1historical mass noun The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation.
  〈史〉（对外国人或其货物的）报复性掳掠

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French reprisaille, from medieval Latin reprisalia (neuter plural), based on Latin repraehens- 'seized', from the verb repraehendere (see reprehend). The current sense dates from the early 18th century.

Rhymes

revisal

Definition of reprisal in US English:

reprisal

nounrəˈpraɪzəlrəˈprīzəl

1An act of retaliation.
报复，报复行动
three youths died in the reprisals that followed
三个年轻人在随后的报复行动中丧生。
the threat of reprisal
实行报复的威胁。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Allies, who were at one stage two days’ march from Paris, had circulated details of their planned reprisals, so that the Revolutionaries knew who was to be tortured to death and who merely imprisoned for life.
- Although that revolt failed, the brutal Ottoman reprisals, which killed 30,000 Bulgarians, drew Europe's attention to what had previously been considered an Ottoman backwater.
- The reason that serious entertainment journalism only tends to exist in major outlets is that only major outlets can scare the system out of reprisals for their honesty.
- Though the British as a whole supported the policy of reprisals, the toll of death and destruction in Berlin and other large cities caused misgivings and public questioning of the morality of ‘area’ bombing.
- No one was arrested in the 1983 incident, but professional reprisals did follow.
- A gangland war erupts that sees assassination attempts, violent reprisals, and an ever-rising body count.
- The citadel was evacuated to avoid political reprisals in the 1780s, but civilians remained in the fortified town until its decline in the mid-nineteenth century.
- However, the key feature of such trust relations is an absence of opportunism, in that individual firms will not fear reprisals after any reorganization of interfirm relations.
- Between the rants and reprisals the couple meet, and still unaware of their counterparts' real identities take a liking to one another.
- She is panicked about possible reprisals at work because of her illness and absences, together with the fact that she is seeing a psychiatrist.
- By its lack of information, the text distances the - individual homicides from the history of reprisals that area prominent feature-of sectarian murders.
- The twentieth century saw many examples of arts playing a powerful political role, sometimes eliciting harsh reprisals and censorship, even death.
- The other side of the coin is the individual's right to personal privacy and the right, of say human rights activists, to communicate online without fear of reprisals from repressive regimes needs to be protected.
- People rightly aren't willing to risk destroying their own careers if they sense there isn't sufficient protection from reprisals by their superiors.
- It turns out they are using the house to launch raids in the neighbourhood, prompting Mohammad's son Jamal to plot reprisals against the occupiers.
- Instantly, as if fearing reprisals, she lowered her head in a respectable, subservient manner and said nothing more as she bustled toward the door.
- Negotiations can consist of suggesting courses of action, threatening reprisals, offering to work together, showing or demanding to see cards, or anything at all.
- Zimmerman continues: ‘Those people to whom trade, growth and profit count most make the point that economic reprisals are inevitable.’
- Like Grandma, the two guerrillas had taken revolutionary names to bolster their morale and, in the advent of capture, to shield their villages and families from reprisals.
- But tell me, hasn't the pharmaceutical industry fearing reprisals changed that somewhat, in fact, started policing itself, and toned down some of this stuff?
Synonyms
retaliation, counterattack, counterstroke, comeback
1. 1.1historical The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation.
  〈史〉（对外国人或其货物的）报复性掳掠

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French reprisaille, from medieval Latin reprisalia (neuter plural), based on Latin repraehens- ‘seized’, from the verb repraehendere (see reprehend). The current sense dates from the early 18th century.

词汇	reprisal
释义	Definition of reprisal in English: reprisal noun rɪˈprʌɪz(ə)lrəˈpraɪzəl 1An act of retaliation. 报复，报复行动 three youths died in the reprisals which followed 三个年轻人在随后的报复行动中丧生。 mass noun the threat of reprisal 实行报复的威胁。 Example sentencesExamples But tell me, hasn't the pharmaceutical industry fearing reprisals changed that somewhat, in fact, started policing itself, and toned down some of this stuff? By its lack of information, the text distances the - individual homicides from the history of reprisals that area prominent feature-of sectarian murders. The citadel was evacuated to avoid political reprisals in the 1780s, but civilians remained in the fortified town until its decline in the mid-nineteenth century. A gangland war erupts that sees assassination attempts, violent reprisals, and an ever-rising body count. The Allies, who were at one stage two days’ march from Paris, had circulated details of their planned reprisals, so that the Revolutionaries knew who was to be tortured to death and who merely imprisoned for life. She is panicked about possible reprisals at work because of her illness and absences, together with the fact that she is seeing a psychiatrist. Although that revolt failed, the brutal Ottoman reprisals, which killed 30,000 Bulgarians, drew Europe's attention to what had previously been considered an Ottoman backwater. No one was arrested in the 1983 incident, but professional reprisals did follow. Though the British as a whole supported the policy of reprisals, the toll of death and destruction in Berlin and other large cities caused misgivings and public questioning of the morality of ‘area’ bombing. Between the rants and reprisals the couple meet, and still unaware of their counterparts' real identities take a liking to one another. People rightly aren't willing to risk destroying their own careers if they sense there isn't sufficient protection from reprisals by their superiors. The reason that serious entertainment journalism only tends to exist in major outlets is that only major outlets can scare the system out of reprisals for their honesty. However, the key feature of such trust relations is an absence of opportunism, in that individual firms will not fear reprisals after any reorganization of interfirm relations. Zimmerman continues: ‘Those people to whom trade, growth and profit count most make the point that economic reprisals are inevitable.’ Like Grandma, the two guerrillas had taken revolutionary names to bolster their morale and, in the advent of capture, to shield their villages and families from reprisals. Negotiations can consist of suggesting courses of action, threatening reprisals, offering to work together, showing or demanding to see cards, or anything at all. The other side of the coin is the individual's right to personal privacy and the right, of say human rights activists, to communicate online without fear of reprisals from repressive regimes needs to be protected. It turns out they are using the house to launch raids in the neighbourhood, prompting Mohammad's son Jamal to plot reprisals against the occupiers. Instantly, as if fearing reprisals, she lowered her head in a respectable, subservient manner and said nothing more as she bustled toward the door. The twentieth century saw many examples of arts playing a powerful political role, sometimes eliciting harsh reprisals and censorship, even death. Synonyms retaliation, counterattack, counterstroke, comeback revenge, vengeance, retribution, requital, recrimination, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, tit for tat, getting even, redress, repayment, payback Latin lex talionis informal a taste of one's own medicine rare ultion, a Roland for an Oliver 1.1historical mass noun The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation. 〈史〉（对外国人或其货物的）报复性掳掠 Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French reprisaille, from medieval Latin reprisalia (neuter plural), based on Latin repraehens- 'seized', from the verb repraehendere (see reprehend). The current sense dates from the early 18th century. Rhymes revisal Definition of reprisal in US English: reprisal nounrəˈpraɪzəlrəˈprīzəl 1An act of retaliation. 报复，报复行动 three youths died in the reprisals that followed 三个年轻人在随后的报复行动中丧生。 the threat of reprisal 实行报复的威胁。 Example sentencesExamples The Allies, who were at one stage two days’ march from Paris, had circulated details of their planned reprisals, so that the Revolutionaries knew who was to be tortured to death and who merely imprisoned for life. Although that revolt failed, the brutal Ottoman reprisals, which killed 30,000 Bulgarians, drew Europe's attention to what had previously been considered an Ottoman backwater. The reason that serious entertainment journalism only tends to exist in major outlets is that only major outlets can scare the system out of reprisals for their honesty. Though the British as a whole supported the policy of reprisals, the toll of death and destruction in Berlin and other large cities caused misgivings and public questioning of the morality of ‘area’ bombing. No one was arrested in the 1983 incident, but professional reprisals did follow. A gangland war erupts that sees assassination attempts, violent reprisals, and an ever-rising body count. The citadel was evacuated to avoid political reprisals in the 1780s, but civilians remained in the fortified town until its decline in the mid-nineteenth century. However, the key feature of such trust relations is an absence of opportunism, in that individual firms will not fear reprisals after any reorganization of interfirm relations. Between the rants and reprisals the couple meet, and still unaware of their counterparts' real identities take a liking to one another. She is panicked about possible reprisals at work because of her illness and absences, together with the fact that she is seeing a psychiatrist. By its lack of information, the text distances the - individual homicides from the history of reprisals that area prominent feature-of sectarian murders. The twentieth century saw many examples of arts playing a powerful political role, sometimes eliciting harsh reprisals and censorship, even death. The other side of the coin is the individual's right to personal privacy and the right, of say human rights activists, to communicate online without fear of reprisals from repressive regimes needs to be protected. People rightly aren't willing to risk destroying their own careers if they sense there isn't sufficient protection from reprisals by their superiors. It turns out they are using the house to launch raids in the neighbourhood, prompting Mohammad's son Jamal to plot reprisals against the occupiers. Instantly, as if fearing reprisals, she lowered her head in a respectable, subservient manner and said nothing more as she bustled toward the door. Negotiations can consist of suggesting courses of action, threatening reprisals, offering to work together, showing or demanding to see cards, or anything at all. Zimmerman continues: ‘Those people to whom trade, growth and profit count most make the point that economic reprisals are inevitable.’ Like Grandma, the two guerrillas had taken revolutionary names to bolster their morale and, in the advent of capture, to shield their villages and families from reprisals. But tell me, hasn't the pharmaceutical industry fearing reprisals changed that somewhat, in fact, started policing itself, and toned down some of this stuff? Synonyms retaliation, counterattack, counterstroke, comeback 1.1historical The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation. 〈史〉（对外国人或其货物的）报复性掳掠 Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French reprisaille, from medieval Latin reprisalia (neuter plural), based on Latin repraehens- ‘seized’, from the verb repraehendere (see reprehend). The current sense dates from the early 18th century.
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