Desert
Reprisal
Reprisal noun - The act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury.
Usage example: after defeating them last year in the finals, our team nervously awaited the expected reprisal by our archrivals in this year's tournament
Desert and reprisal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Desert" instead a noun "Reprisal".
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Reprisal and Desert. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/desert/reprisal
Desert & Reprisal. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/desert/reprisal>.
Reprisal or Desert. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/desert/reprisal.
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