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revenge

noun
/ɹəˈvɛnd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle French revenge, a derivation from revenger, from Old French revengier (possibly influenced by Old Occitan revènge (“revenge, comeback”), from Old Occitan revenir (“to come back”)), a variant of Middle French revancher (whence deverbal French revanche), from Old French revenchier. The variants Old French vengier (whence French venger) and Old French venchier are both descended from Latin vindicō, with stress-conditioned different parallel development in the inflectional forms. Doublet of revanche. Compare avenge and vengeance.

  1. derived from vindicō
  2. derived from revènge
  3. derived from revengier
  4. borrowed from revenge

Definitions

  1. Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for…

    Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.

    • Indifference is the sweetest revenge.
    • When I left my wife, she tried to set fire to the house in revenge.
    • After tearing his fave T-shirt unintentionally, my brother wreaked revenge on me by ripping my most prized blazer apart.

  2. A win by a previous loser.

    • “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

  3. To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim)

    To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.

    • Arsenal revenged their loss to Manchester United last time with a 5–0 drubbing this time.
    • The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
    • to revenge the death of our fathers
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).

      • Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.

    2. To take vengeance

      To take vengeance; to revenge itself.

      • a bird that will revenge upon you all
      • Count it not hard henceforth, when thou dost hear That a just vengeance was by righteous court Justly reveng'd. […]

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Derived

Montezuma's revenge, nonrevenge, Pharaoh's revenge, prevenge, revengeance, revenge buying, revenge drama, revengeful, revenge is a dish best served cold, revenge is sweet, revengeless, revenge porn, revenge quitting, revenge shopping, revenge spending, revenge tragedy, revenge travel, revengism, revengeable, revengement, revenger, revengingly, unrevenged, unrevenging

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for revenge. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA