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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revenge \Re*venge"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
To revenge the death of our fathers. --Ld. Berners.
The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. --Dryden.
Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. --Shak.
2. To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
Syn: To avenge; vindicate. See {Avenge}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revenge \Re*venge"\, verb (used without an object) To take vengeance; -- with upon. [Obs.] ''A bird that will revenge upon you all.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revenge \Re*venge"\, noun
1. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. --Bacon.
2. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
Revenge now goes To lay a complot to betray thy foes. --Shak.
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. --Kames.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
revenge
noun: action taken in return for an injury or offense [syn: {retaliation}]
verb: 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
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