Crossword-Solution: REPRISAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Reprisal | n. | The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. |
| Reprisal | n. | Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation. |
| Reprisal | n. | The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity. |
| Reprisal | n. | Any act of retaliation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REPRISAL | anagram | RESPIRAL |
We have 27 clues for the answer “REPRISAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime | 1 answer |
| Retaliatory action taken after harm | 1 answer |
| Vengeful deed | 1 answer |
| Taste of one's own medicine | 1 answer |
| Retaliatory act | 1 answer |
| Payback of sorts | 1 answer |
| Eye-for-an-eye act | 1 answer |
| Evil for evil. | 1 answer |
| Avenger's goal | 1 answer |
| Avenger's action | 1 answer |
| Avenger's act | 1 answer |
| Act of retaliation | 1 answer |
| counterblow | 2 answers |
| Eye for an eye, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Counter-attack | 3 answers |
| LIKE for like | 6 answers |
| Tit for tat | 11 answers |
| vengeance | 11 answers |
| retaliation | 11 answers |
| avenger | 12 answers |
| Retribution | 20 answers |
| quittance | 22 answers |
| measure for measure | 22 answers |
| payback | 22 answers |
| Boomerang | 34 answers |
| revenge | 36 answers |
| redress | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with REPRISAL (5)
Would she also chose not to reveal the truth to the committee, fearing reprisals? In response to several other questions posed by the panel, Ann Biggot proclaimed that she had no fear of reprisal for her testimony, but every so often a Freudian slip would break out from her careful answers.
For his own part the Negro would not have been averse to returning to the fold could the thing be accomplished without danger of reprisal on the part of Skipper Simms and Ward; but he knew the men so well that he feared to trust them even should they seemingly acquiesce to any such proposal.
This disgraceful conduct of the Emperor might have justified a reprisal, but Maximilian was too old a statesman to listen to the voice of passion, where policy alone ought to be heard.
With that they parted; Mr Swiveller to make the best of his way home and sleep himself sober; and Quilp to cogitate upon the discovery he had made, and exult in the prospect of the rich field of enjoyment and reprisal it opened to him.
The Huns justified this outrage as an act of reprisal; alleged, that the bishop of Margus had entered their territories, to discover and steal a secret treasure of their kings; and sternly demanded the guilty prelate, the sacrilegious spoil, and the fugitive subjects, who had escaped from the justice of Attila.
Quotes with REPRISAL (3)
Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
... Faustus ... dared to confirm he had advanced beyond the level of a scarlet sinner — he was a conscious follower of the Prince of Darkness. The fact he could publicly project an Antichrist image with pride, having no fear of reprisal, and his seeming diabolical art of escaping all punishment when others who were considered heretics had burned at the stake for less, would certainly signal that an unnatural individual walked in their midst. It is true in many respects he ass…
Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to employ certain progressive methods of neural interface, but he felt somewhat apprehensive about implementing them, for fear of the risks involved and of the limited returns such tactics might yield. For instance, it would be a particularly wasteful endeavor if, for the sake of exhausting every last option available, he were even to go so far as resorting to in…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1961–2024).