Revenge
[rɪ'ven(d)ʒ] or [rɪ'vɛndʒ]
Definition
(verb.) take revenge for a perceived wrong; 'He wants to avenge the murder of his brother'.
Typist: Sam--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
(v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with
(n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
(n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
Typed by Jennifer
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Retaliate, requite, take vengeance for.[2]. Avenge, vindicate by punishment.
n. Retaliation, requital (of an injury).
Typist: Penelope
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See RETIREMENT]
SYN:Retaliation, vengeance, retribution, requital
ANT:Condonation, pardon, compassion, remission
Typed by Amalia
Definition
v.t. to punish in return: to avenge.—v.i. to take vengeance.—n. the act of revenging: injury inflicted in return: a malicious injuring in return for an injury received: the passion for retaliation.—adj. Revenge′ful full of revenge or a desire to inflict injury in return: vindictive: malicious.—adv. Revenge′fully.—n. Revenge′fulness.—adj. Revenge′less.—ns. Revenge′ment; Reveng′er.—adv. Reveng′ingly.—Give one his revenge to play a return match with a defeated opponent.
Typist: Osborn
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of taking revenge, is a sign of a weak and uncharitable nature, which if not properly governed, will bring you troubles and loss of friends. If others revenge themselves on you, there will be much to fear from enemies.
Typist: Zamenhof
Examples
- But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Well, at least, said Holmes, you have had your revenge upon them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Forced to fly her husband's roof by this insult, the coward had pursued his revenge by taking her child from her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Were this my last hour of power, it should be an hour sacred to revenge and to pleasure--let new cares come with to-morrow's new day. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mr. Osborne dropped it with the bitterest, deadliest pang of balked affection and revenge. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In Europe, if the French, who are white people, should injure the Dutch, are they to revenge it on the English, because they too are white people? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I will be revenged! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- After all these years I am at last revenged. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I do not know that she revenged it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The individual becomes one with his order; or, if he resists, the world is too much for him, and will sooner or later be revenged on him. Plato. The Republic.
- He was father's partner, and father broke with him, and now he revenges himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hitherto man has been living in a slum, amidst quarrels, revenges, vanities, shames and taints, hot desires, and urgent appetites. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But a coward, a man incapable either of defending or of revenging himself, evidently wants one of the most essential parts of the character of a man. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If I read his character right he will devote his whole energies to revenging himself upon me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Polly