revenge
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1. revenge - Noun
2. revenge - Verb
Meaning
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.
To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
To take vengeance; -- with
The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
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He wants to avenge the murder of his brother
A brother of one of the girls killed the bear, so Artemis sent a plague in revenge.
A Clinton/Trump revenge rematch would be almost as interesting as a revenge game between Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Bucs and Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots.
According to Altena, a thousand years ago, a group of people who had survived a bloody war that cost numerous lives, formed a group called Les Soldats to protect the weak and take revenge on the world.
A British soldier encapsulated the soldiers' view of the defeat: "Such was the day for our regiment Dread the revenge we will take.
After bombing empty building in Iraq, the Iranian government has signaled that they’re content with that being the “revenge” for Soleimani’s death.