Synonym: payback, requital, vengeance. Similar words: contribution, distribution, tribulation, attributive, contributing, retrospection, tribute, tribunal. Meaning: [‚retrɪ'bjuːʃn] 
n. 1. a justly deserved penalty 2. the act of correcting for your wrongdoing 3. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life.
n. 1. a justly deserved penalty 2. the act of correcting for your wrongdoing 3. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life. 
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91. May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and a trap.
92. It was not just a simple transplanted model of the stereotypical preachment, but also was a retribution against the illusory concept of transformation.
93. His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.
94. Or imagine a world in which personal revenge, retribution [Sentencedict.com ], getting even is only a keystroke away.
95. Nor have I so read or interpreted Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as a part of the retribution.
96. Drowning person greedy tour information, immediate retribution, the surface of Dayton festered.
97. The president promised swift and effective retribution against the terrorists.
98. It is as if it were necessary, before a reign of justice appears, for everyone to suffer a cruel retribution—some for their evilness, and some for their lack of understanding.
99. Forgive, and leave his further retribution to the Power that claims it!
100. All its passion of comradeship among Allies , of retribution upon the common fee dominated our minds.
101. They dismiss concerns that some of the Africans who flocked to Libya under Mr. Gadhafi's policy of pan-Africanism might be subject to retribution.
102. His admiration goes out to the characters who defy the sordidness of life and, risking all the dangers of retribution, live beyond good and evil, in magnificence.
103. Stokely Carmichael said that white America had declared war on black America and there was no alternative to retribution.
104. Victims often do not come forward for fear of retribution or deportation back to China.
105. Happiness and courage, retribution or justice are secondary ends for them.
106. The French were in a state of postwar shock and clamoring for fearful retribution.
107. See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a millionfold the power of retribution for my sin?
108. However, their reign is all but over and already they run scared of the possibility that they cannot escape retribution.
109. Retribution paladins have been deleted, replaced with a same level loladin.
110. The historic mission of the retribution theory has already completed, its base value should be negated, but the author does not deny its modern value.
111. In a broad sense, utilitarianism covers both humanitarianism and retribution, thus both are components of utilitarianism.
More similar words: contribution, distribution, tribulation, attributive, contributing, retrospection, tribute, tribunal, attribute, contribute, distribute, contributor, distributor, distributed, contribute to, distributary, constitutional convention, locution, solution, execution, elocution, pollution, evolution, ablutions, resolution, devolution, absolution, executioner, diminution, precaution.