切り返す

きりかえす【切り返す】

strike back

［自］〔…に〕反論する〔at〕

counterattack

|他||自|(…に)逆襲する.

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きりかえす【切り返す】

〔剣で〕 slash back 《at an opponent》; 〔逆に言い返す〕 retort; come back 《at sb with…》; 〔柔道また相撲で〕 trip an opponent with a leg behind the opponent's forward leg.

●ハンドルを何度も切り返す turn the steering wheel quickly in one direction and then the other several times.

●彼女は年を訊かれ, すかさず「そういうあなたは?」と切り返した. Asked her age, she immediately came back with “What about yourself?”