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re⋅cip⋅ro⋅cate

[ri-sip-ruh-keyt] verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to give, feel, etc., in return.
2. to give and receive reciprocally; interchange: to reciprocate favors.
3. to cause to move alternately backward and forward.
–verb (used without object)
4. to make a return, as for something given.
5. to make interchange.
6. to be correspondent.
7. to move alternately backward and forward.

Origin:
1605–15; < L reciprocātus ptp. of reciprocāre to move back and forth. See reciprocal, -ate 1


re⋅cip⋅ro⋅ca⋅tive, re⋅cip⋅ro⋅ca⋅to⋅ry [ri-sip-ruh-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective
re⋅cip⋅ro⋅ca⋅tor, noun


1. return, respond, retaliate.
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unreciprocated

adjective
not returned in kind; "unrequited (unanswered) love" [syn: unanswered
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