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REVENGE
retaliation, revenge
(noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense
revenge, avenge, retaliate
(verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong; “He wants to avenge the murder of his brother”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
revenge (usually uncountable, plural revenges)
Any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
Synonyms: payback, wreak, Thesaurus:revenge
A win by a previous loser.
Verb
revenge (third-person singular simple present revenges, present participle revenging, simple past and past participle revenged)
(transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
(transitive, reflexive) To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).
(intransitive, archaic) To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
Anagrams
• genever
Source: Wiktionary
Re*venge", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revenged, p. pr. & vb. n. Revenging (.] Etym: [OF. revengier, F. revancher; pref. re- re- + OF. vengier to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L. vindicare. See Vindicate, Vengerance, and cf. Revindicate.]
1. To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before thewrong done or the wrongdoer. To revenge the death of our fathers. Ld. Berners. The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. Dryden. Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak.
2. To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
Syn.
– To avenge; vindicate. See Avenge.
Re*venge", v. i.
Definition: To take vengeance; -- with upon. [Obs.] "A bird that will revenge upon you all." Shak.
Re*venge", n.
1. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. Bacon.
2. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury. Revenge now goes To lay a complot to betray thy foes. Shak. The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Kames.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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