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noun

Revenge n.

The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. "Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior."

The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury. "Revenge now goes To lay a complot to betray thy foes." "The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel."

verb

Revenge v. t. (past & past part. revenged, pres. part. revenging)

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. "To revenge the death of our fathers." "The gods are just, and will revenge our cause." "Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius."

To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

Synonyms: To avenge; vindicate. See Avenge.

Revenge v. i. To take vengeance; with upon. (Obs.) "A bird that will revenge upon you all."

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"Revenge" Quotes from Famous Books

... self-denials, and the like. Thereupon, out of the depths of my morbid soul swam up a new and fascinating idea; and at once the career of arms seemed over-acted and stale, and piracy, as a profession, flat and unprofitable. This, then, or something like it, should be my vocation and my revenge. A severer line of business, perhaps, such as I had read of; something that included black bread and a hair-shirt. There should be vows, too—irrevocable, blood curdling vows; and an iron grating. This iron grating was the most necessary feature of all, for I ...

— Dream Days • Kenneth Grahame

... would have great difficulties to encounter. They knew that the natives had a horror of the dead, believing that spirits in the dark land of the departed thought of nothing but revenge and mischief. Therefore they perform ceremonies to propitiate departed spirits and dissuade them from plaguing the living with war, ...

— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin

... Bagarag heard mention of Shagpat, and the desire for vengeance in the Vizier, he was as a new man, and he smelt the sweetness of his own revenge as a vulture smelleth the carrion from afar, and he said, 'I am thy servant, thy slave, O Vizier!' Then smiled he as to his own soul, and he exclaimed, ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... rice and swore to punish him, he tried to excuse himself by saying that Master Dickey did the same thing every night. The lad denied it to his father, and was so angry with Ben for informing against him, that out of revenge he ran and got a bayonet, and whilst the poor wretch was suspended by his hands and writhing under his wounds, he run it quite through his foot. I was not by when he did it, but I saw the wound when I came home, and heard Ben tell the manner ...

— The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave • Mary Prince

... brutal treatment of helpless wives by infuriated husbands. Nor did the evil stop even with a partial amelioration of the cause, but tended for a time to reproduce itself; for the son, grown to a ripe age and bound to a wife now old and wrinkled, would revenge himself by treating his own son in the manner in which he had ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 • Various

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