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retaliate collapse: 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 sides collapse

pay back collapse: take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him"

contend with collapse

commute collapse: a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work; "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute"; exchange a penalty for a less severe one; move from one side of an equation to the other side without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other"; travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

requite collapse: make repayment for or return something

swap collapse: move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science

bloated collapse: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"

chop logic collapse

wrangle collapse: herd and care for; "wrangle horses"

grapple with collapse

rotate collapse: plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"; perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"; cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"; exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"

transpose collapse: a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix; change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"; put (a piece of music) into another key; transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality

bicker collapse: a quarrel about petty points

plead collapse: appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop"; enter a plea, as in courts of law; "She pleaded not guilty"; offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity"; make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts

respond collapse: respond favorably or as hoped; "The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy"

moot collapse: a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot"; of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)

compensate collapse: make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated"; make amends for; pay compensation for; "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"; adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

chess collapse: a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king; weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

checkers collapse: a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces

cavil collapse: raise trivial objections

reciprocate collapse: alternate the direction of motion of; "the engine reciprocates the propeller"; act, feel, or give mutually or in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!"

quibble collapse: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

monstrous collapse: abnormally large

hassle collapse: disorderly fighting

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