reciprocate

Meaning

1. (transitive) To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.
2. (transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
3. (intransitive) To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
4. (intransitive) To counter, retort or retaliate.

Synonyms

repay

interchange

pay back

requite

retaliate

exchange

reply

respond

reward

render

intersperse

permute

react

reciprocating

recompense

repeat

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replacement

reprisal

reprisals

requital

return

revenge

swop

take revenge

trade

traverse

change for

renumerate

repay a favour

trade for

alternate

double replacement

answer

barter

commute

compensate

correlate

correspond

counterchange

give back

interconversion

Translations

beantwoorden

terugdoen

vergelden

erwidern

ανταλλάσσω

ανταποδίδω

corresponder

contraccambiare

teruggeven

ricambiare

ripagare

donner en retour

vergelten

réciproquer

tekabül

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈsɪpɹəˌkeɪt/

Etymology

From Latin recīprocātus, perfect passive participle of recīprocō (“to move back and forth”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from reciprocus (“back an forth, reciprocal, alternating”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), itself possibly from a phrase such as reque proque (“back and forth”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”). See also reciprocal. Compare French réciproquer.