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revenge English

Meaning revenge meaning

What does revenge mean?
Definitions in simple English

revenge Noun

— Revenge is the act of hurting someone because they have hurt you.

revenge Verb

— If you revenge yourself on someone, you hurt them because they have hurt you.

revenge

— noun (= retaliation) action taken in return for an injury or offense — verb (= avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong He wants to avenge the murder of his brother

Synonyms revenge synonyms

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revenge English » English

vengeance avenge retaliation retribution retaliate reprisal requite take vengeance vindicate take revenge pay back requital repay get even with take vengeance on revanche repayment malice wanion vindictiveness tit for tat talion reply reimbursement punishment punish payback hate grudge get even get back exchange countercharge bitter enemy avengement anger wreak vengeance wreak vindication of honour vindication of honor vengefulness venge vendetta ultion turn taste stew in anger smell self-redress seek revenge

Topics revenge topics

What do people use revenge to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Revenge
Social behavior Behavior Love

Hate, ill will

Conjugation revenge conjugation

How do you conjugate revenge?

revenge · verb

Examples revenge examples

How do I use revenge in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The officer seemed to be afraid of their revenge.
They set fire to their neighbour's house in revenge.
I don't take revenge on you for anything.
If I do it, he will take revenge on me.
I'll take my revenge on him at all costs tomorrow.
He was driven by revenge.
In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man is.
He took revenge.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Suicide is an act of revenge against yourself, and I personally have nothing against myself.
Tom wanted revenge.
I will get revenge for this insult, you can be sure of that!
There's nothing worse than the revenge of a spurned woman.
Revenge is sweet.
He managed to forbear his revenge.
Revenge is a dish which is best served cold.
I took my revenge.
It is indiscriminate revenge.

Movie subtitles

Have you come to get revenge for the match I had?
I will. have my revenge!
His little revenge video doubled the show ratings.
Rebecca, revenge is never a good idea.
No sentence, no punishment, no revenge, could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
Polyphemus hurls a rock at Ulysses' ship and begs for Neptune's revenge.
The Sun's Revenge.
Rejoice in your revenge Kriemhild!
How Kriemhild swears revenge to Hagen Tronje.
Let's take revenge on the bloodthirsty vampires!
When I thought you were dead when I thought of what killed you, I wanted revenge too.
You want revenge, don't you?
Don't give up your life for anything so cheap as revenge.
You owe me revenge.
I'll take revenge!
You'd think I'd get some satisfaction out of that, but I don't because nothing. No sentence, no punishment, no revenge, could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
Remember, you shall not escape my revenge!
He utilises the light to revenge himself against those who framed him for theft.
Patronize him, scorn him, revenge yourself upon him.
Revenge, I suppose.
But I've had my fill of revenge.
But aren't you forgetting. that a man's bitter heart may demand revenge?
It was a murder of hatred, of revenge.
Good. You owe me revenge.
He's lying. He wants revenge for being expelled.
Since then, you found your revenge and triumph in keeping me at your mercy in taking his child from me.
I've heard her, walking up and down her room at night all night long cursing you because she must love you and can't help herself swearing a terrible revenge for this love she bears you.
One side hits, the other hits back worse, and then those guys want revenge for that, so they hit back even harder.
And then those guys want revenge for that, so they hit back even harder.
Get revenge!
Because nothing. no sentence, no punishment, no revenge could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
He lives, to take revenge on me.
If I were free, I would get my revenge.
The Weasel's revenge.
Go home. I'll meet you there. I must face the revenge of a furious husband!
You might want to take your revenge!
It may have been a case of revenge.

News and current affairs

Under Putin, the security service has had its revenge.
They use carefully planned and staged mass murders of innocents in order to take revenge on society and to glorify themselves as they take their own lives.
Blinded with grief and rage, the US would exact a terrible revenge.
Hamas, whose engagement and support is essential for any settlement, has sworn revenge.
Here, at long last, was Poland's long-awaited popular uprising, revenge for December 1980, when Jaruzelski declared martial law, banned Solidarity, and threw its leaders in jail.
The terrible death count in Moscow, much as Russians may want to seek revenge, must also help all Russians see that Chechnya is a political problem demanding a political, not a military, solution.
Games between Holland and Germany, for example, or Germany and Poland, tended, until very recently, to be reenactments of the war; either - and most commonly - as melancholy replays of wartime defeat, or as sweet revenge.
Many of the new post-communist societies - consumed with revenge, resentment, and raw struggles for power and status - became breeding grounds for aggressive nationalism.
Israel's insistence in continuing its assassination policy led, predictably, to a violent reaction--a pattern of assassinations followed by revenge suicide bombings and then further assassinations, with neither side prepared to blink.
Nelson Mandela could easily have chosen to define his group as black South Africans and sought revenge for the injustices of Apartheid and his own imprisonment.
The true Hindu seeks no revenge upon history, for he understands that history is its own revenge.
More than that, the arrest of DSK was supposedly revenge for France's protection of another man accused of sexual crimes, Roman Polanski, and for the French ban on the burqa.
These are steps toward the unification of a state and nation, and not attempts to gain revenge or break up Russia.
Who among Israel's leaders understands that reconciliation is more important that retribution and revenge?
There is nothing incendiary about Charter 08, no call for violent rebellion, no thirst for revenge or retribution.
The right-wing British politician Enoch Powell used to claim that the European Common Market was the revenge that the Germans and the French imposed for the defeats that Britain inflicted on them.
In the early 1990's, some Turkish generals saw the humiliation of Russian troops in Chechnya as part of a long-awaited revenge.
Mao launched the Cultural Revolution (1965-76) to take revenge against those who opposed his mad programs.
Murder sprees are more often than not a form of personal revenge - losers wishing to blow up the world around them, because they feel humiliated or rejected, whether socially, professionally, or sexually.
Today's refugee camps are often breeding grounds for terrorism, revenge fantasies, and armed insurgency.
With nothing to lose, they seek revenge for their parents' expulsion from a homeland that, over time, becomes increasingly idealized.
When the Dutch had their revenge in 1988 and beat Germany to go on to become European champions, more people danced in the streets in Holland than on the day that the real war ended in May 1945.
All, including the traffickers, ended up embracing the fundamentalist rhetoric of revenge against infidels.

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