Found 5 hits - Term: revenge, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
revenge \revenge"\, v. t. imp. p. p. revenged, p. pr.
vb. n. revenging. 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 the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
1913 webster
to revenge the death of our fathers. --ld. berners.
1913 webster
the gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
--dryden.
1913 webster
come, antony, and young octavius, come,
revenge yourselves alone on cassius. --shak.
1913 webster
2. to inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant
spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
1913 webster
syn: to avenge; vindicate. see avenge.
1913 webster
see also:
revenged revenging vindicate vengerance revindicate avenge
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
revenge \revenge"\, v. i.
to take vengeance; -- with upon. obs. "a bird that will
revenge upon you all." --shak.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
revenge \revenge"\, n.
1. the act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning
of evil for evil.
1913 webster
certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his
enemy; but in passing it over he is superior.
--bacon.
1913 webster
2. the disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to
one who has done us an injury.
1913 webster
revenge now goes
to lay a complot to betray thy foes. --shak.
1913 webster
the indulgence of revenge tends to make men more
savage and cruel. --kames.
1913 webster
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
revenge
n : action taken in return for an injury or offense syn: retaliation
v : take revenge for a perceived wrong; "he wants to avenge the
murder of his brother" syn: avenge, retaliate
see also:
retaliation avenge retaliate
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 moby thesaurus words for "revenge":
amends, atonement, avenge, avengement, avenging, balancing,
comeuppance, commutation, compensation, counteraction,
counterbalancing, counterblow, defend, desert, deserts,
even the score, expiation, get, get even with, indemnification,
indemnity, just deserts, justify, launch a vendetta, lex talionis,
offsetting, punish, punishment, quittance, recompense,
rectification, redress, reparation, repayment, reprisal, requital,
restitution, retaliate, retaliation, retribution, revanche, reward,
satisfaction, spitefulness, substitution, take revenge, vengeance,
vindicate, vindictiveness, what is due, what is merited
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