All counterplay synonyms

noun counterplay

• grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
• retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
• attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
• vengeance — infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge: But have you the right to vengeance?
• reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
• ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
• counterblow — a retaliatory blow
• return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
• malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
• sortie — a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
• vengefulness — desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive: a vengeful attitude.
• fight — a battle or combat.
• satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
• spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
• requital — the act of requiting.
• repayment — to pay back or refund, as money.
• vindictiveness — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
• rancor — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
• animus — If a person has an animus against someone, they have a strong feeling of dislike for them, even when there is no good reason for it.
• counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
• avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
• rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
• ill will — hostile feeling; malevolence; enmity: to harbor ill will against someone.
• measure for measure — a comedy (1604) by Shakespeare.
• tit for tat — with an equivalent given in retaliation, as a blow for a blow, repartee, etc.: He answered their insults tit for tat.
• implacability — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.