take revenge for

Synonyms

revenge avenge requite

Examples

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

Words in the phrase

take revenge for

Close letter words and terms

take reprisals against take responsibility take revenge take revenge on take rise take risks