get even

Main Entry:
get even
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: to get revenge
Synonyms: even the score, get back at, get square, settle the score
Main Entry: fix
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: wreak vengeance on
Synonyms: cook someone's goose, get even, get revenge, get*, hurt, pay back, punish, take retribution
Antonyms: aid, assist, help
Main Entry: get back at
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: settle a score
Synonyms: be avenged, get even, pay back, retaliate, revenge, take vengeance
Main Entry: pay
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get revenge
Synonyms: avenge oneself, get even, make up for, pay back, pay one's dues, punish, reciprocate, recompense, repay, requite, retaliate, settle a score, square, square things
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: spite
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: offend, hurt
Synonyms: annoy, begrudge, beset, crab, cramp style, discomfit, gall, get even, grudge, hang up, harass, harm, injure, louse up, needle, nettle, persecute, pique, provoke, put out, upset the apple cart, vex
Antonyms: forgive, help, love, please
Related Words
Main Entry: revenge
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
avenging, immitigable, implacable, inexorable, pitiless, rancorous, rankling, remorseless, revengeful, rigorous, ruthless, stony, unforgiving, unrelenting, vengeful, vindictive
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Revenge.
Category: 2. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections
Synonyms:
-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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