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| Main Entry: |
measure for measure
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| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | equally |
| Synonyms: | amends, atonement, compensation, eye for an eye, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, meed, payback, quid pro quo, reciprocity, recompense, rectification, reparation, restitution, retaliation, tit for tat, tooth for a tooth |
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| Main Entry: | eye for an eye |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for a wrong |
| Synonyms: | avenging, getting even, measure for measure, payback, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, tit for tat, tooth for a tooth, vengeance, vindication |
| Main Entry: | quid pro quo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something for something |
| Synonyms: | equal exchange, equal substitution, equivalent, eye for an eye, like for like, measure for measure, something in return, substitute, tit for tat, trade-off |
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| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
ruthless, avenging, immitigable, implacable, inexorable, pitiless, rancorous, rankling, remorseless, revengeful, rigorous, 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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