REVENGE


Meaning of REVENGE in English

vi to take vengeance;

— with.

2. revenge ·noun the act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

3. revenge ·vt to inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

4. revenge ·noun the disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.

5. revenge ·vt 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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