revenge

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  1. transitive verb To inflict punishment in return for (injury or insult).
  2. transitive verb To seek or take vengeance for (oneself or another person); avenge.
  3. noun The act of taking vengeance for injuries or wrongs; retaliation.
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  • In fact, she quite considered that her revenge was almost adequate. —  Mary Balogh - Daring Masquerade.html
  • Judaism after holocaust did not take revenge from the Germans they trained their children to become the minds and soul of the world, on the other hand residents of kins of @! —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • While we are riding a "movie and media reference" kick, the revenge is a dish best served cold phrase appeared in several additional titles. —  Mother Tongue Annoyances
  • Yet this person was getting revenge, although they didnt dare use the word revenge, and immediately took those two words off the Shanghai PSB website. —  Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China
  • Even his enemy Simon Cameron declared he did not believe the story, and the engine of his revenge was always run by "one hundred Injun power I had "met" Grant several times, when one day in London I was introduced to him again. —  Memoirs
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vengeance ·  cruelty ·  hatred ·  lust ·  malice ·  ambition ·  violence ·  punishment ·  torture ·  outrage ·  oppression ·  shame
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  1. Middle English revengen, from Old French revengier : re-, re- + vengier, to take revenge (from Latin vindicāre, to avenge, from vindex, vindic-, avenger; see deik- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Old French revenger, revencher, French revancher, French dial. revanger, revenge, = Spanish revindicar, claim, = Portuguese revindicar, claim. reflexive be revenged, = Italian rivendicare, revenge, reflexive be revenged, from Middle Latin *revindicare, revenge, literally vindicate again, from Latin re-, again, + vindicare (later Old French vengier, venger), arrogate, lay claim to: see vindicate, venge, avenge. Cf. revindicate.
  2. Early modern English revenge, from Old French revenche, revanche, French revanche, revenge, French dial. revainche, revenche; from the verb.
 

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