Definitions for revenge
rɪˈvɛndʒre·venge

Princeton's WordNet(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. retaliation, revenge(verb)

   action taken in return for an injury or offense

2. revenge, avenge, retaliate(verb)

   take revenge for a perceived wrong

   "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"

Wiktionary(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. revenge(Noun)

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

   Indifference is the sweetest revenge.

2. revenge(Verb)

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

   I will revenge myself upon you!

3. revenge(Verb)

   To take revenge for (a particular harmful action), to avenge.

   Arsenal revenged its loss to Manchester United last time with a 5-0 drubbing this time.

4. revenge(Verb)

   To take vengeance.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Revenge(verb)

   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

2. Revenge(verb)

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

3. Revenge(verb)

   to take vengeance; -- with

4. Revenge(noun)

   the act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil

5. Revenge(noun)

   the disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Revenge

   Revenge is a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. It is also called payback, retribution, retaliation or vengeance; it may be characterized as a form of justice, an altruistic action which enforces societal or moral justice aside from the legal system. Francis Bacon described it as a kind of "wild justice.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Revenge

   rē-venj′, v.t. to punish in return: to avenge.—v.i. to take vengeance.—n. the act of revenging: injury inflicted in return: a malicious injuring in return for an injury received: the passion for retaliation.—adj. Revenge′ful, full of revenge or a desire to inflict injury in return: vindictive: malicious.—adv. Revenge′fully.—n. Revenge′fulness.—adj. Revenge′less.—ns. Revenge′ment; Reveng′er.—adv. Reveng′ingly.—Give one his revenge, to play a return match with a defeated opponent. [O. Fr. revenger, revencher (Fr. revancher)—L. re-, in return, vindicāre, to lay claim to.]

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'revenge' in Nouns Frequency: #2898

Anagrams for revenge »

1. genever

How to pronounce revenge?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of revenge in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of revenge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of revenge in a Sentence

1. Proverb:

   If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman

2. George Santayana:

   It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

3. Francis Bacon:

   Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

4. Prof.Salam Al Shereida:

   Revenge is proof that human being knows neither the meaning of death nor valediction.

5. Author Unknown:

   Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

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