verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.| 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. |
| 4. | to make a return, as for something given. |
| 5. | to make interchange. |
| 6. | to be correspondent. |
| 7. | to move alternately backward and forward. |

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