Reciprocate: meaning, example and synonyms
Reciprocatev. To respond to an action or feeling by giving something similar in return.
Example
When the neighboring laboratory shared its unpublished data, the team felt obliged to reciprocate by granting the visitors access to their electron microscope.
- Part of speech
- verb
- Synonyms
- return, repay, requite, respond in kind
- Antonyms
- ignore, spurn, rebuff, withhold
- Memory tip
- Reciprocal = going back and forth: you give, I give back.
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Check yourself: Reciprocate in context
When the rival company offered to share its research on battery safety, the firm's directors decided to ______ by opening their own testing data to inspection.
Answer: reciprocate. Sharing their own data in response to shared research is returning the favor. swoon (be overcome with emotion), conflate (merge mistakenly) and converge (come together) don't fit.
She had sent him warm letters for months, but he never ______ her affection, replying only with brief, formal notes.
Answer: reciprocated. Cold replies to warm letters mean he did not return her affection. conflated (merge mistakenly), converged (come together) and reconstituted (rebuild) don't fit.