Dictionary Definition
reciprocate
Verb
1 act, feel, or give mutually or in return; "We
always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!"
2 alternate the direction of motion of; "the
engine reciprocates the propeller"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
Translations
To mutually give and take something; to
interchange
- German: etwas austauschen
To give something in response
- Finnish: antaa vastalahja
To move backwards and forwards, like a piston
- Finnish: liikkua edestakaisin
To counter, retort or retaliate
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accord,
act in concert, act together, affiliate, agree, agree with, ally, alternate, amalgamate, answer, answer to, associate, back and fill,
band, band together,
bandy, battledore and
shuttlecock, be in league, be quits with, change, chime in with, club
together, coact, coalesce, coequal, collaborate, collude, combine, come and go, come back
at, commute, compensate, complement, concert, concord, concur, confederate, consolidate, conspire, cooperate, correspond, correspond to,
cotton to, counter,
counterchange, do
business with, ebb and flow, empathize, equal, exchange, fall in with,
federate, fuse, get along, get along with,
get back at, get even with, get heads together, get on with, get
together, give and take, give in exchange, give in return, go
partners, hang together, harmonize, harmonize with, hit
back at, hitch and hike, hold together, hook up, identify with,
interchange,
join, join in, join
together, keep together, league, league together, logroll, make common cause,
match, merge, partner, pass and repass, pay
back, permute, play
ball, pull together, put heads together, recompense, repay, requite, respond, respond to, retaliate, retort, return, return the compliment,
ride and tie, seesaw,
shuttle, shuttlecock, sing in chorus,
stand together, strike back, swap, swing, switch, sympathize, team up, teeter, teeter-totter, throw in
together, tie in, tie up, to-and-fro, trade, transpose, understand one
another, unite, unite
efforts, wax and wane, wibble-wabble, wigwag, work together, zigzag