| 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: | reprisal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | revenge |
Synonyms: |
avengement, avenging, counterblow, counterstroke, eye for an eye, paying back, requital, retaliation, retribution, vengeance |
Antonyms: |
kindness, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | retribution |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for wrong, grievance |
Synonyms: |
animus, attack, avenging, avengment, counterblow, counterinsurgency, counterplay, eye for an eye, fight, getting even, ill will, implacability, malevolence, measure for measure, rancor, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, ruthlessness, satisfaction, sortie, spitefulness, tit for tat, vengeance, vengefulness, vindictiveness |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
Antonyms: |
forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | vengeance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for another's act |
Synonyms: |
avengement, avenging, counterblow, evening of score, eye for an eye, getting even, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, revenge, settling of score, tit for tat, vengefulness, wrath |
Antonyms: |
forgiveness, pardon |
| Main Entry: | measure for measure |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | tit for tat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | measure for measure |
Synonyms: |
equivalent, eye for an eye, like for like, quid pro quo, something for something, trade-off |
| Main Entry: | retaliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vengeance |
Synonyms: |
eye for an eye, punishment, reprisal, retribution, revenge |
| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
ruthless, avenging, immitigable, implacable, inexorable, pitiless, rancorous, rankling, remorseless, revengeful, rigorous, stony, unforgiving, unrelenting, vengeful, vindictive
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