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reciprocate (ri SIP ruh kayt") (verb), reciprocates; reciprocated; reciprocating
1. To give, to feel, to do something similar in return for what each one has done to the other one: Monica was treated very nicely by her boyfriend and so she reciprocated by giving him a hug.

Anyone who reciprocates is returning the same kind of treatment that another person has done to him or to her, whether it is good or bad.

2. To interchange; each person or group giving or doing to the other the same thing; to give, to feel, etc., in return: Alice loved her daughter Lucy very much, and this love was certainly reciprocated by Lucy towards her mother as well.
3. Etymology: from Latin reciprocare "to move back" and "forth"; from re-, "backward" + pro, "forward" + -cate, "normally a verb ending".
To mutually interchange by giving and receiving the same thing to each other.
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To return something done or given by repaying it back.
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This entry is located in the following units: -cate (page 6) pro-, por-, pur- (page 14) re-, red- (page 1) reciproc- (page 1)
reciprocating (adjective), more reciprocating, most reciprocating
Pertaining to something that causes or moves backward and forward.
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Word Entries containing the term: “reciprocating”
reciprocating engine (s) (noun), reciprocating engines (pl)
Another term for a piston engine; that is, an engine that employs one or more pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion.
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