| Main Entry: | kick back |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relax |
Synonyms: |
breathe easy, calm down, catch one's breath, chill out, collect oneself, compose oneself, cool off, feel at home, hang loose, lie down, loosen up, make oneself at home, mellow out, put one's feet up, recline, rest, settle back, sit around, sit back, take a break, take a breather, take a load off, take it easy, take ten, unwind, wind down |
| Main Entry: | boomerang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | backfire |
Synonyms: |
backlash, bounce back, come back, come home to roost, kick back, react, rebound, recoil, return, reverse, ricochet |
Antonyms: |
work |
| Main Entry: | bounce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spring up; rebound |
Synonyms: |
backlash, bob, boomerang, bound, buck, bump, carom, fly back, glance off, hop, hurdle, jerk up and down, jounce, jump, kick back, leap, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, saltate, snap back, spring back, thump, vault |
| Main Entry: | pay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | profit, yield |
Synonyms: |
be profitable, be remunerative, bring in, kick back, make a return, make money, pay dividends, pay off, pay out, produce, provide a living, return, show gain, show profit, sweeten, yield profit |
Antonyms: |
lose |
| Main Entry: | rebound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bounce back; ricochet |
Synonyms: |
backfire, boomerang, convalesce, get back on one's feet, get better, get in shape, get well, heal, kick back, make a comeback, mend, overcome, pick up, pull through, rally, recoil, recuperate, regain one's health, rejuvenate, return, return to form, revive, snap back, spring back, start anew |
| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | retaliate for wrong, grievance |
Synonyms: |
avenge, be out for blood, defend, even the score, fight back, fix, fix one's wagon, get, get back at, get even, give comeuppance, give just desserts, hit back, justify, kick back, make reprisal, match, pay back, pay back in spades, pay off, punish, reciprocate, redress, repay, requite, retort, return, return the compliment, score, settle up, settle with, square, stick it to, take an eye for an eye, turn the tables on, venge, vindicate |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
Antonyms: |
forgive, pardon, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | ricochet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rebound |
Synonyms: |
backfire, boomerang, bounce back, deflect, kick back, recoil, return, snap back, spring back |
| 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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| Concept: | Revenge. |
| Category: | 2. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections |
Synonyms: |
-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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