n. 1 vengeance, retaliation, reprisal, retribution, vindictiveness, spitefulness, repayment, satisfaction They think he set fire to the place in revenge for having been dismissed
v. 2 avenge, get even for, take revenge for, make reprisal for, exact retribution or payment or repayment for She was seeking ways to revenge the murder of her brother 3 revenge oneself (on). settle a score or an old score (with), pay (someone) back in his or her own coin, give a Roland for an Oliver, give tit for tat, take an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth), punish, Colloq get, get even (with), give (someone) his or her or their comeuppance, give (someone) a taste of his or her or their own medicine He found ways to revenge himself on them for all that they had done to him