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Reciprocate

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To give or take mutually; interchange.

v. To show, feel, or give in response or return.

verb-intransitive. To move back and forth alternately.

verb-intransitive. To give and take something mutually.

verb-intransitive. To make a return for something given or done.

verb-intransitive. To be complementary or equivalent.

v. To mutually give and take something; to interchange.

v. To give something in response.

v. To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.

v. To counter, retort or retaliate.

verb-intransitive. To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

v. To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate.

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.

In mathematics, to take the reciprocal of.

v. act, feel, or give mutually or in return

v. alternate the direction of motion of

"Providing for others who never add to your reciprocate is the same as throwing it away."

reciprocated reciprocates reciprocating

Words that are more generic or abstract

move

interchange requite return reciprocating proposition reciprocating force

reciprocated reciprocating

Words with the same meaning

alternate interchange correspond correlate return