reciprocate

Verb

Meaning

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

To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bandy return change trade turn shuttle shuttlecock share equal exchange match switch respond alternate counter
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Antonyms

question combat request differ bomb ask
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Hypernyms

move act

Hyponyms

return

Related terms

reciprocal reciprocity reciprocality reciprocatory reciprocitarian

Phrases with the word

reciprocate feeling

Derivatives

reciprocated reciprocating

Examples

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. Addison Mizner

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. Michael Nesmith

Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called 'success' with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings. Stefan Zweig

I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that. Christopher Paolini

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. Paul Valéry

If So-and-so challenges me, I shall lay before you a careful account of what I have said and done; if that does not satisfy him, I shall reciprocate his dislike of me. Tiberius

Close letter words and terms

reciprocant reciprocantive reciprocatable reciprocate feeling reciprocated affection reciprocated feelings