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| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for wrong, grievance |
| Synonyms: | animus, attack, eye for an eye*, fight, ill will, malevolence, measure for measure, rancor, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, satisfaction, sortie, tit for tat*, vengeance, avenging, avengment, counterblow, counterinsurgency, counterplay, getting even, implacability, ruthlessness, spitefulness, vengefulness, vindictiveness |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | forgive, pardon, sympathize |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
ruthless, avenging, immitigable, implacable, inexorable, pitiless, rancorous, rankling, remorseless, revengeful, rigorous, stony, unforgiving, unrelenting, vengeful, vindictive
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-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.
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revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless [more]; 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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| Main Entry: | avenge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | retaliate |
| Synonyms: | chasten, chastise, get back at, get even, payback, punish, redress, repay, requite, revenge, vindicate, come back at, even the score, retribute, stick it to, take satisfaction, take vengeance, venge |
| Main Entry: | deserts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | what is due one |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, deserving, discipline, due, merit, payment, penalty, punishment, recompense, requital, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, chastening, chastisement, disciplining, get hers, get his, guerdon, lumps, meed, talion, what is coming to one, what one is asking for |
| Main Entry: | due |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expected reward |
| Synonyms: | claim, comeuppance, compensation, deserts*, interest, need, payment, perquisite, prerogative, privilege, rate, recompense, repayment, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, right, satisfaction, title, vengeance, be in line for, entitlement, guerdon, merits, rights, what is coming to one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | get back at |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | settle a score |
| Synonyms: | get even, retaliate, revenge, be avenged, pay back, take vengeance |
| Main Entry: | hate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme dislike |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bête noire*, bother, bugbear*, detestation, disgust, enmity, execration, frost*, grievance, gripe, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, irritant, loathing, malevolence, nuisance, objection, odium, pain, rancor, rankling, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, trouble, venom, black beast, malignity, mislike, nasty look, no love lost |
| Antonyms: | liking, love, loving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hatred |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe dislike |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, acrimony, alienation, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, contempt, detestation, disapproval, disfavor, disgust, displeasure, distaste, enmity, envy, execration, grudge, hard feelings, hate, horror, hostility, ignominy, ill will, loathing, malevolence, malice, odium, pique, prejudice, rancor, repugnance, repulsion, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, spleen, venom, allergy to, coldness, invidiousness, malignance, militancy, no use for |
| Antonyms: | like, liking, love, loving |
| Main Entry: | requite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compensate, give in return |
| Synonyms: | indemnify, make, pay, quit, reciprocate, recompense, redeem, redress, reimburse, remunerate, repay, respond, restitution, retaliate, return, revenge, reward, satisfy, settle, make amends, make good, pay off |
| Antonyms: | dissatisfy, refuse |
| Main Entry: | retaliate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get even with someone |
| Synonyms: | get, get back at, pay, reciprocate, recompense, repay, requite, retrospect, return, revenge, revive, settle, even the score, exact retribution, give and take, make reprisal, pay back, return the compliment, square accounts, strike back, take an eye for an eye, take revenge, turn the tables on, turn upon, wreak vengeance |
| Antonyms: | forgive, pardon, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | retort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | snappy answer |
| Synonyms: | back talk, comeback, cooler, counter, crack*, gag*, jape, jest, joke, lip*, quip, rejoinder, repartee, reply, reprisal, respond, response, retaliation, return, revenge, riposte, sally, snappy comeback*, wisecrack, witticism, antiphon, back answer, parting shot, topper |
| Antonyms: | question, request |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | retribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payback for another's action |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, eye for an eye*, justice, punishment, reckoning, recompense, redress, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, revenge, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, avengement, avenging, counterblow, just desserts, revanche, what for |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful feeling |
| Synonyms: | animosity, antipathy, bad blood*, contempt, despite, enmity, gall, grudge, hate, hatred, ill will, malevolence, malice, peeve, pique, rancor, resentment, revenge, spleen, umbrage, vengeance, venom, harsh feeling, maliciousness, malignity, spitefulness, vengefulness, vindictiveness |
| Antonyms: | liking, love, loving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vendetta |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feud |
| Synonyms: | argument, bad blood*, conflict, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, family feud, fight, fracas, grudge, hostility, quarrel, revenge, rivalry, row, squabble, strife, bickering, falling out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vengeance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for another's act |
| Synonyms: | eye for an eye*, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, revenge, tit for tat*, wrath, avengement, avenging, counterblow, evening of score, getting even, settling of score, vengefulness |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eye for an eye |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for a wrong |
| Synonyms: | measure for measure, payback, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, tit for tat, vengeance, vindication, avenging, getting even, tooth for a tooth |
| Main Entry: | retaliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vengeance |
| Synonyms: | eye for an eye*, punishment, reprisal, retribution, revenge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vindication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justification |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, apology, clearance, defense, exoneration, pardon, proof, revenge, exculpation |
| Antonyms: | blame, charge, conviction, guilt, indictment |
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