(~s, revenging, ~d)
1.
Revenge involves hurting or punishing someone who has hurt or harmed you.
The attackers were said to be taking ~ on the 14-year-old, claiming he was a school bully...
N-UNCOUNT: oft N on/for/against n
2.
If you ~ yourself on someone who has hurt you, you hurt them in return. (WRITTEN)
The Sunday Mercury accused her of trying to ~ herself on her former lover...
...the relatives of murdered villagers wanting to ~ the dead.
= avenge
VERB: V pron-refl on n, V n