# revenge
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹəˈvɛnd͡ʒ/, /ɹɪˈvɛnd͡ʒ/, /ɹiˈvɛnd͡ʒ/
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* (General Australian) IPA: /ɹəˈvendʒ/
* Hyphenation: re‧venge

### Etymology 1

From Middle French revenge, a derivation from revenger, from Old French revengier (possibly influenced by Old Occitan revènge (“revenge, comeback”), from Old Occitan revenir (“to come back”)), a variant of Middle French revancher, from Old French revenchier. The variants Old French vengier (whence French venger) and Old French venchier are both descended from Latin vindicō, with stress-conditioned different parallel development in the inflectional forms. Compare avenge and vengeance.

#### Noun

revenge (usually uncountable, plural revenges)
* Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
    Synonyms: payback, wreak; see also Thesaurus:revenge
    Indifference is the sweetest revenge.
    When I left my wife, she tried to set fire to the house in revenge.
    After tearing his fave T-shirt unintentionally, my brother wreaked revenge on me by ripping my most prized blazer apart.
* A win by a previous loser.
** 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
** 1999 January 27, Bride of Chaotica! (Star Trek: Voyager) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:CHAOTICA: Arachnia, death as you know it has no hold on me. My defeat is but a temporary setback. I shall return to seek my revenge. JANEWAY: He doesn't give up, does he? PARIS: They never do. CHAOTICA: Our love was not meant to be, my Queen. But be warned. You have not seen the last of (gurgle) Chaotica.

##### Derived terms

* Montezuma's revenge
* Pharaoh's revenge
* revenge buying
* revengeful
* revenge is a dish best served cold
* revenge is sweet
* revenge porn
* revenge quitting
* revenge shopping
* revenge spending
* revenge travel

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: リベンジ

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English revengen, from Old French revengier, revenger.

#### Verb

revenge (third-person singular simple present revenges, present participle revenging, simple past and past participle revenged)
* (transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
    Arsenal revenged their loss to Manchester United last time with a 5–0 drubbing this time.
** 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
** 1814, Lord Berners, The Ancient Chronicles of Sir John Froissart:to revenge the death of our fathers
** c. 1840, Leigh Hunt, The Seer; Or, Common-places Refreshed:However, my veneration for that illustrious man was so great, that on the night when he died, I revenged him finely on his two principal enemies.
* (transitive, reflexive) To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).
** 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.
* (intransitive, archaic) To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
** c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:a bird that will revenge upon you all
** 1814, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. […], volume III (Paradise), London: […] [J. Barfield] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 30, lines 45–47:Count it not hard henceforth, when thou dost hear That a just vengeance was by righteous court Justly reveng'd. […]

##### Derived terms

* revengement
* revenger

##### Translations
### See also

* vendetta
* avenge
* venge
* vengeance
* get one's own back
* get back at somebody
* retaliate

### Anagrams

* genever