You searched for: “reciprocate”
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.
© ALL rights are reserved.
To return something done or given by repaying it back.
© ALL rights are reserved.

Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.

This entry is located in the following units: -cate (page 6) pro-, por-, pur- (page 14) re-, red- (page 1) reciproc- (page 1)
Word Entries at Get Words: “reciprocate”
reciprocate (ri SIP ruh kayt")
This time, cate is presenting examples of doing something in return for what has been done to an individual by another one.
This entry is located in the following unit: cate family of verbs (page 5)