REPRISAL
\ɹɪpɹˈa͡ɪzə͡l], \ɹɪpɹˈaɪzəl], \ɹ_ɪ_p_ɹ_ˈaɪ_z_əl]\
Definitions of REPRISAL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
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In war, something done to, or taken from, an enemy by way of payment for an injury; as, the Allied airmen made reprisals for the Zeppelin raids by bombing German cities; any repayment of injury with injury.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A seizing back or in retaliation: (war) the retaking of goods captured by an enemy: anything seized in retaliation: that which is seized for injury inflicted.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
