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to strike back
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to make a counterattack, often responding with similar force or action, especially in response to harm or wrongdoing
Intransitive: to strike back | to strike back against a wrongdoing
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Inseparable
Particle
back
Base verb
strike
Present tense
strike back
3rd person singular
strikes back
Present participle
striking back
Past simple
struck back
Past participle
struck back
Examples
The superhero vowed to strike back against the villain's evil plans to save the city.
