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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | answer, respond in retaliation |
| Synonyms: | backtalk, beat, bilk, buck, circumvent, contravene, counteract, counterwork, cross, dash, disappoint, fly in the face of, foil, frustrate, have bone to pick, hinder, hit back, match, meet, offset, oppose, parry, pit, play off, resist, respond, retaliate, return, ruin, take on, thumbs down, vie, ward off |
| 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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