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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payback for another's action |
| Synonyms: | avengement, avenging, comeuppance, compensation, counterblow, eye for an eye, just desserts, justice, punishment, reckoning, recompense, redress, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, revanche, revenge, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, what for |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |