take revenge
Verb
Meaning
take revenge (third-person singular simple present takes revenge, present participle taking revenge, simple past took revenge, past participle taken revenge)
To avenge; to get back at.
Synonyms
Examples
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.
Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro' the spirit's gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
To take revenge on an enemy, give him an elephant -- first he must thank you for the gift, and then the elephant's appetite will deplete your enemy's resources.
If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman.
Not able to take revenge on the donkey, take it out on the saddle.