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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | retaliate |
| Synonyms: | chasten, chastise, come back at, even the score, get back at, get even, payback, punish, redress, repay, requite, retribute, revenge, stick it to, take satisfaction, take vengeance, venge, vindicate |
| Main Entry: | repay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get even; obtain restitution for past injustice |
| Synonyms: | avenge, even the score, get back at, get revenge, make reprisal, pay back, reciprocate, requite, retaliate, return, return the compliment, revenge, settle the score, square accounts |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
| Main Entry: | retaliate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get even with someone |
| Synonyms: | even the score, exact retribution, get, get back at, give and take, make reprisal, pay, pay back, reciprocate, recompense, repay, requite, retrospect, return, return the compliment, revenge, revive, settle, square accounts, strike back, take an eye for an eye, take revenge, turn the tables on, turn upon, wreak vengeance |
| Antonyms: | forgive, pardon, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | retaliate for wrong, grievance |
| Synonyms: | avenge, be out for blood, defend, even the score, fight back, fix, fix one's wagon, get, get back at, get even, give comeuppance, give just desserts, hit back, justify, kick back, make reprisal, match, pay back, pay back in spades, pay off, punish, reciprocate, redress, repay, requite, retort, return, return the compliment, score, settle up, settle with, square, stick it to, take an eye for an eye, turn the tables on, venge, vindicate |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
| Antonyms: | forgive, pardon, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | vengeance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for another's act |
| Synonyms: | avengement, avenging, counterblow, evening of score, eye for an eye, getting even, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, revenge, settling of score, tit for tat, vengefulness, wrath |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon |
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| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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avenging, immitigable, implacable, inexorable, pitiless, rancorous, rankling, remorseless, revengeful, rigorous, ruthless, stony, unforgiving, unrelenting, vengeful, vindictive
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| Concept: | Revenge. |
| Category: | 2. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections |
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-nouns
revenge, revengement; vengeance; avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation [more]; day of reckoning., rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence; ruthlessness., avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
-verbs
revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger., have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a rod in pickle., keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast.
-adjectives
revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless; ruthless, rigorous, avenging., unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable; relentless, remorseless., aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus; rankling; immitigable.
-phrases
manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum; dies irae dies illa; "in high vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio [Seneca); malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]; "now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant
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