Synonyms of the word

riposte

• n. (fencing) a thrust given in return after parrying an attack.
• n. a counter-attack in any combat or any sport.
• n. a quick and usually witty response to a taunt, a retort.
• n. an answer or reply, rapidly uttered, in response to a question or problem.
• v. (fencing) to attempt to hit an opponent after parrying an attack.
• v. to respond quickly; particularly if the response is humorous.

answer

• n. A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
• n. A solution to a problem.
• n. (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a reply or response to.
• v. (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
• v. To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
• v. (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
• v. To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
• v. To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
• v. To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform;…
• v. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification;…
• v. To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
• v. (obsolete) To render account to or for.
• v. (obsolete) To atone; to be punished for.
• v. (obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.

comeback

• n. A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.
• n. A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
• n. (sports) An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage…

counter

• n. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
• n. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
• n. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which…
• n. One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
• n. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of…
• n. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
• n. (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although…
• n. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations…
• n. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
• n. (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
• n. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
• n. (Internet) A hit counter.
• adv. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
• n. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
• n. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
• v. To contradict, oppose.
• v. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
• v. To take action in response to; to respond.
• adj. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
• adv. In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
• adv. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
• adv. At or against the front or face.
• n. (obsolete) An encounter.
• n. (nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward…
• n. (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast…
• n. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
• n. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
• n. (typography) The area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol.

counterattack

• n. Alternative form of counter-attack.
• v. Alternative form of counter-attack.

countermove

• n. A move in opposition or response to a preceding move.
• v. To move in opposition or in retaliation.

hurl

• v. (transitive) To throw (something) with force.
• v. (transitive) To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in the sport of hurling.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
• v. (obsolete) To twist or turn.
• n. A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
• n. The act of vomiting.
• n. (hurling) The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
• n. (Ulster) (car) ride.
• n. (obsolete) tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
• n. (obsolete) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.

hurtle

• v. (intransitive) To move rapidly, violently, or without control.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused…
• v. (transitive) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.
• n. A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
• n. A clattering sound.

lunge

• n. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
• n. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long,…
• n. An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning back…
• n. A fish, the namaycush.
• v. To make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
• v. To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

rejoin

• v. To join again; to unite after separation.
• v. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
• v. (archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
• v. (archaic, intransitive): To answer to a reply.
• v. (law, intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
• v. (patent law, nonstandard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a…

rejoinder

• n. (law) defendant's answer to the replication.
• n. A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty; especially an answer to a question.
• n. (patent law) in US patent law re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent…
• v. (intransitive) To issue a rejoinder.
• v. (transitive) To say as a rejoinder.

repay

• v. To pay back.

replication

• n. Process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied mimicked or reproduced.
• n. Copy; reproduction.
• n. (law) A response from the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.
• n. (biology) The process of producing replicas of DNA or RNA molecules.
• n. (computing) The process of frequent electronic data copying a one database in one computer or server to…

reply

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation…
• v. (intransitive) To act or gesture in response.
• v. (intransitive) To repeat something back; to echo.
• n. A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
• n. Something given in reply.

respond

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
• v. (intransitive) To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy; to answer.
• n. A response.
• n. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
• n. (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost…

response

• n. An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
• n. The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
• n. An oracular answer.
• n. (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or…
• n. (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
• n. A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
• n. An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination…
• n. A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.

retort

• n. A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
• v. To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
• v. To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation,…
• v. To bend or curve back.
• v. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
• n. (chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a…
• n. A container in which material is subjected to high temperatures as part of an industrial manufacturing…
• v. (transitive) To heat in a retort.

return

• v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
• v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
• v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
• v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
• v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
• v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
• v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
• v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
• v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
• v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
• v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
• v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
• n. The act of returning.
• n. A return ticket.
• n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
• n. An answer.
• n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
• n. Gain or loss from an investment.
• n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
• n. (computing) A carriage return character.
• n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
• n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
• n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
• n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
• n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
• n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…

thrust

• n. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
• n. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.).
• n. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
• n. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
• v. (intransitive) To make advance with force.
• v. (transitive) To force something upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
• v. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
• v. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
• v. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.