English Dictionary

strike back

verb

(intransitive) To respond to an attack by attacking one's opponent or opponents. / (intransitive) To leave or set out (in a particular direction, often to where one has been).

The rebels decided to strike back against the oppressive regime.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To respond to an attack by attacking one's opponent or opponents.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To leave or set out (in a particular direction, often to where one has been).

The next day the starboard watch, to which we both belonged, was to be sent ashore on liberty; and availing ourselves of this opportunity, we determined, as soon after the landing as possible, to separate ourselves from the rest of the men without exciting their suspicions, and strike back at once for the mountains.

意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To send (light, heat, a substance) in the direction of its source.

[…] the lowest [region of the air] beinge next the earth and the waters, is temperat, and by repercussion or striking back of the sunne beames waxeth hoate, and by absence of them is made colde, being subiect to Wynter and Sommer.

意味（4）

(transitive, obsolete) To push or force (someone or something) away.

[…] if you cast a stone thereinto, it being struck back presently, you shall receive it cast forth again with great force.