reciprocateverb
uk/rɪˈsɪp.rə.keɪt/us/rɪˈsɪp.rə.keɪt/[ I or T ] formal to share the same feelings as someone else, or to behave in the same way as someone else:
Sadly, my feelings for him were not reciprocated.
We invited them to dinner and a week later they reciprocated.
specialized engineering If a part of a machine reciprocates, it moves backwards and forwards:
Some electric razors have reciprocating heads.
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Reciprocating
- another
- each other
- give and take
- it takes two to tango idiom
- mutual
- mutualism
- mutually
- one another 2
- one good turn deserves another idiom
- reciprocal
- reciprocity
- requite
- return
- scratch
- turn
- two
- two-way
- unrequited
- you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours idiom
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reciprocation
noun [ U ] uk/rɪˌsɪp.rəˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/rɪˌsɪp.rəˈkeɪ.ʃən/