By Elizabeth Hartney, PhD - Reviewed by a board-certified physician. Definition of Substance/Medication-Induced Anxiety Disorder. Substance/Medication-Induced Anxiety Disorder is the diagnostic name for severe anxiety or panic which is caused by alcohol, drugs, or medications.
Definition of REVENGE. transitive verb. 1. : to avenge (as oneself) usually by retaliating in kind or degree. 2.
Retaliation is an act of revenge  Retaliation is an act of revenge. Before you initiate retaliation on someone who has wronged you, consider whether he or she might have a ninja alter ego and a set of nunchucks stashed away. The noun retaliation stems from the Latin retaliare, meaning âpay back in kind.â Notice the word kind in that definition. Retaliation used to have both good and evil connotations. Now, though, itâs important to read that kind as synonymous with type or sort because retaliation has since lost its positive sense. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, âMan must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.