revenge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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 (whence deverbal French revanche), 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. Doublet of revanche. Compare avenge and vengeance.
Inflected forms:
form: revenges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: revenges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: revenging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: revenged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: revenged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: A win by a previous loser.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: “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”.
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.
gloss: To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Arsenal revenged their loss to Manchester United last time with a 5–0 drubbing this time.
The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
to revenge the death of our fathers
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.
gloss: To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
transitive
examples: Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
 Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.
gloss: To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: a bird that will revenge upon you all
Count it not hard henceforth, when thou dost hear
 That a just vengeance was by righteous court
 Justly reveng'd. […]
Synonyms: avenge
payback
reprisal
requital
retaliation
retribution
revanche
revenge
vengeance
wrack
wreak
Related words: forgiveness
vendetta
avenge
venge
vengeance
get one's own back
get back at somebody
retaliate
revanche
Derived words: Montezuma's revenge
nonrevenge
Pharaoh's revenge
prevenge
revengeance
revenge buying
revenge drama
revengeful
revenge is a dish best served cold
revenge is sweet
revengeless
revenge porn
revenge quitting
revenge shopping
revenge spending
revenge tragedy
revenge travel
revengism
revengeable
revengement
revenger
revengingly
unrevenged
unrevenging
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