Revenge

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Revenge \Re*venge"\, 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.
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              To revenge the death of our fathers.  --Ld. Berners.
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              The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
              Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.  --Shak.
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     2. To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant
        spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
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     Syn: To avenge; vindicate. See {Avenge}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Revenge \Re*venge"\, v. i.
     To take vengeance; -- with upon. [Obs.] "A bird that will
     revenge upon you all." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Revenge \Re*venge"\, n.
     1. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning
        of evil for evil.
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              Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his
              enemy; but in passing it over he is superior.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     2. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to
        one who has done us an injury.
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              Revenge now goes
              To lay a complot to betray thy foes.  --Shak.
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              The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more
              savage and cruel.                     --Kames.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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