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Resuscitate
- verb - cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man"
- return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"
Retaliating
- verb - make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing"
- take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"
Retaliation
- noun - action taken in return for an injury or offense
Retaliators
- noun - someone who takes vengeance
Retaliatory
- adjective - of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"
Retardation
- noun - a decrease in rate of change; "the deceleration of the arms race"
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders; "flame-retardant"
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
Retardative
- - Tending, or serving, to retard.
Retribution
- noun - a justly deserved penalty
- the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
- the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"
Retributive
- adjective - given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"
- of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"