revenge
English
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈvɛndʒ/
- Hyphenation: re‧venge
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Noun
revenge (usually uncountable, plural revenges)
- Any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some perceived harm or injustice.
- Indifference is the sweetest revenge.
- When I left my wife, she tried to set fire to the house in revenge.
- (competition) A win by the previous loser.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
- “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
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Synonyms
- payback, wreak
- See also Thesaurus:revenge
Derived terms
Terms derived from revenge
Translations
retaliatory action
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Verb
revenge (third-person singular simple present revenges, present participle revenging, simple past and past participle revenged)
- (reflexive) To take one's revenge (on or upon) someone.
- Shakespeare
- Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, / Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.
- Shakespeare
- (transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
- Ld. Berners
- to revenge the death of our fathers
- Dryden
- The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
- Arsenal revenged its loss to Manchester United last time with a 5-0 drubbing this time.
- Ld. Berners
- (intransitive, archaic) To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
- Shakespeare
- A bird that will revenge upon you all.
- Shakespeare
Translations
to take one's revenge on someone
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to take revenge for an action
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