an eye for an eye
NOUN
counteraction
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STRONG
NOUN
counterattack
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STRONGEST
NOUN
counterblow
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STRONG
NOUN
reciprocation
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STRONG
Example Sentences
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I don’t know much about God— not the God they have down there, where they take an eye for an eye an’ a tooth for a tooth and kill because some one else has killed.
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