reprisal /n'praizl; n'praiz|/ n 1 [U] paying back injury with injury: 以牙還親; 報(bào)復(fù)： do sth by way of ~. 出于報(bào)復(fù)而做某事。 2 (pl) acts of retaliation, esp of one country on another during a war. (復(fù))報(bào)復(fù)行為(尤指在戰(zhàn)時(shí)一國(guó)對(duì)他國(guó)所做者)。