revenge
Meanings
Plural: revenges
Noun
- action taken in return for an injury or offense
- Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
- A win by a previous loser.
Verb
- take revenge for a perceived wrong
- To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
- To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).
- To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French revenge, a derivation from revenger, from Old French revengier (possibly influenced by Old Occitan revènge (“revenge, comeback”), from Old Occitan revenir (“to come back”)), a variant of Middle French revancher, from Old French revenchier. The variants Old French vengier (whence French venger) and Old French venchier are both descended from Latin vindicō, with stress-conditioned different parallel development in the inflectional forms. Compare avenge and vengeance.
Synonyms
avenge, payback, reprisal, requital, retaliate, retaliation, retribution, revanche, revenge, vengeance, wrack, wreak
Scrabble Score: 11
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