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| 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: | Restitution. |
| Category: | 2. Transfer of Property |
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return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify; reinvest, remit, rehabilitate; repair (make good)., redeem, recover (get back); take back again; revest, revert.
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| Antonyms: | taking, stealing |
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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: | Retaliation. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo, give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores., serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a Tartar.
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| Concept: | Counteraction. |
| Category: | 5. Combinations of Causes |
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counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose; traverse; withstand (resist); hinder; repress (restrain); react (recoil)., undo, neutralize; counterpoise (compensate); overpoise.
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| Antonyms: | concurrence |
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