meaning of revenge
1. To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc. ; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
2. To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
3. To take vengeance; -- with
4. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
5. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
6. action taken in return for an injury or offense
Related Words
revenge | revengeable | revengeance | revenged | revengeful | revengefully | revengeless | revengement | revenger |
