English to English noun
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action taken in return for an injury or offense | | source: wordnet30
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The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. | | source: webster1913 verb
3 |
take revenge for a perceived wrong | | Example: He wants to avenge the murder of his brother
source: wordnet30
4 |
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. | | source: webster1913
5 |
To take vengeance; -- with | | source: webster1913
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