"hit back" meaning in English

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      "form": "hits back",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "hitting back",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "hit back",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:",
          "text": "The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To retaliate"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "retaliate",
          "retaliate"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To retaliate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to retaliate",
          "word": "zurückschlagen"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To return a missed phone call with (someone)."
      ],
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      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To return a missed phone call with (someone)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
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  "word": "hit back"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hits back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitting back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:",
          "text": "The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To retaliate"
      ],
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        [
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          "retaliate"
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        "(intransitive) To retaliate"
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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    },
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        "To return a missed phone call with (someone)."
      ],
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to retaliate",
      "word": "zurückschlagen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hit back"
}