Verb
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.
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred. Pierre Corneille
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. Niccolò Machiavelli
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. Nepal Proverb
If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman. Arabic Proverb
Not able to take revenge on the donkey, take it out on the saddle. Basque Proverb