revenge
noun
[ rɪˈvɛn(d)ʒ ]
• the action of hurting or harming someone in return for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands.
• "other spurned wives have taken public revenge on their husbands"
Similar:
vengeance,
retribution,
retaliation,
reprisal,
requital,
recrimination,
tit for tat,
measure for measure,
getting even,
redress,
satisfaction,
repayment,
payback,
lex talionis,
ultion,
revenge
verb
• inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself.
• "I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you"
Similar:
take revenge on,
exact/wreak revenge on,
get one's revenge on,
avenge oneself on,
take vengeance on,
get even with,
settle a/the score with,
get,
pay back,
pay out,
retaliate on/against,
take reprisals against,
exact retribution on,
let someone see how it feels,
give as good as one gets,
give/return like for like,
give tit for tat,
give someone their comeuppance,
get one's own back on,
recriminate,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French revencher, from late Latin revindicare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vindicare ‘claim, avenge’.
