| Concept: | Malevolence. |
| Category: | 2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections |
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be malevolent; bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a rudge, bear malice; betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot., hurt (physical pain); annoy; injure., harm, wrong; do harm to, do an ill office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast., molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use., wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel; dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood; have no mercy.
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| Antonyms: | benevolence |
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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: | Enmity. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
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be inimical; keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice; fall out; take umbrage; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.
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| Antonyms: | friendship |
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| Concept: | Envy. |
| Category: | 2. Retrospective sympathetic affections |
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envy, covet, burst with envy.
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| Concept: | Evil. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
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| Antonyms: | good |
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| Concept: | Hate. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
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hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate; scowl; disrelish (dislike)., owe a grudge; bear spleen, bear a grudge, bear malice (malevolence) [more]; conceive an aversion to., excite hatred, provoke hatred; be hateful; stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify; roil.
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| Antonyms: | love |
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| Concept: | Revenge. |
| Category: | 2. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections |
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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.
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| Concept: | Wrong. |
| Category: | 1. Moral obligations |
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be wrong; cry to heaven for vengeance., do wrong; be inequitable; favor, lean towards; encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch and take an ell; rob Peter to pay Paul.
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| Antonyms: | right |
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