REPRISAL Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

reprisal

noun

ri-ˈprī-zəl

as in reparation

usually reprisals plural payment to another for a loss or injury a peace agreement that was rejected because it contained no provisions for reprisals

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as in retaliation

the act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury after defeating them last year in the finals, our team nervously awaited the expected reprisal by our archrivals in this year's tournament

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Recent Examples of reprisal And many fear reprisals from the government for speaking out. —

Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 7 June 2026 Candidates who challenge the powerful can draw strong but silent support, because there is open fear of reprisals from city officials against those who back any challenger to the people in charge. —

Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 30 May 2026 Global economic outlook worsens over Iran war The US and Iran appeared still willing to reach a peace deal despite American strikes and Tehran’s threats of reprisals — but the global economic fallout from the conflict deepened. —

semafor.com, 29 May 2026 The young father, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said the driver seemed to follow him down an alley off Pico Boulevard. —

Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for reprisal

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Noun

Reports also suggest that Iran expects to receive, through some unspecified payment mechanism, potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in de-facto reparations for damage caused by the war.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
At least five states, including California, New York and Maryland, and more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Detroit and Philadelphia, have created have created task forces or commissions to study slavery reparations.

— Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 17 June 2026