reciprocate.
To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.
Meaning & usage
To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.
To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
I gave them apples from my tree; they reciprocated with a pie and some apple jelly.
I simply couldn't accept such a gift without reciprocating.
To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
a reciprocating engine
To counter, retort or retaliate.
Where this word comes from
From Latin recīprocātus, perfect passive participle of recīprocō (“to move back and forth”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from reciprocus (“back an forth, reciprocal, alternating”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), itself possibly from a phrase such as reque proque (“back and forth”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”). See also reciprocal. Compare French réciproquer.
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