<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li><p>(used with object)</p><ul><li>to give, feel, etc., in return.</li><li>Synonyms: retaliate, respond, return.</li><li>to give and receive reciprocally; interchange: to reciprocate favors.</li><li>to cause to move alternately backward and forward.</li></ul></li><li><p>(used without object)</p><ul><li>to make a return, as for something given.</li><li>to make interchange.</li><li>to be correspondent.</li><li>to move alternately backward and forward.</li></ul></li></ul>