Reciprocate

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  • intransitive verb. To give or take mutually; interchange.
  • intransitive verb. To show, feel, or give in response or return.
  • intransitive verb. To give and take something mutually.
  • intransitive verb. To make a return for something given or done.
  • intransitive verb. To move back and forth alternately.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In mathematics, to take the reciprocal of.
  • To cause to move back and forth; give an alternating motion to.
  • To give and return mutually; yield or perform each to each; interchange: as, to reciprocate favors.
  • To give or do in response; yield a return of; requite correspondingly.
  • To move backward and forward; have an alternating movement; act interchangeably; alternate.
  • To act in return or response; do something equivalent or accordant: as, I did him many favors, but he did not reciprocate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate.
  • intransitive verb. To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
  • intransitive verb. a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circular path.
  • intransitive verb. motion alternately backward and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To mutually give and take something; to interchange.
  • verb. To give something in response.
  • verb. To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
  • verb. To counter, retort or retaliate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. act, feel, or give mutually or in return
  • verb. alternate the direction of motion of
  • Word Usage
    "HARRY LEWIS: There's a-the latest Facebook craze is "25 Random Things About Me," where you're supposed to put twenty-five facts about yourself and then you send it to twenty-five people and ask them to reciprocate, which is a wonderful marketing ploy for Facebook, of course, because if you don't have a Facebook account, of course, you want to sign up and get one, so that you too can share twenty-five random things about yourself."
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