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revenge (usually uncountable; plural revenges)
- Any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some perceived harm or injustice.
- Indifference is the sweetest revenge.
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Terms derived from revenge
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retaliatory action
- Albanian: gjakmarrja (sq)
- Arabic: ثأر (ar) (tha'r) m., إنتقام (ar) ('intiqaam) m.
- Armenian: վրեժ (hy) (vrež), քեն (hy) (k'en), ոխ (hy) (ox)
- Azeri: qisas (az)
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: revenja (ca) m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 報仇 (zh), 报仇 (zh) (bàochóu), 復仇 (zh), 复仇 (zh) (fùchóu), 報復 (zh), 报复 (zh) (bàofù)
- Croatian: ȍsveta (hr) f., òdmazda (hr) f.
- Czech: pomsta (cs) f.
- Danish: hævn (da)
- Dutch: wraak (nl) f.
- Esperanto: venĝo (eo)
- Estonian: kätte maksma
- Finnish: kosto (fi)
- French: vengeance (fr) f.
- Old French: venjance f., justise f.
- Georgian: შურისძიება (ka) (šurisdzieba), შურისგება (ka) (šurisgeba)
- German: Rache (de) f.
- Greek: εκδίκηση (el) (ekdíkisi) f.
- Hebrew: נקמה (he) (nekama) f.
- Hindi: बदला (hi) (badalā)
- Hungarian: bosszú (hu)
- Icelandic: hefnd (is) f.
- Ido: venjo (io)
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- Indonesian: balas dendam (id)
- Irish: díoltas (ga) m.
- Italian: vendetta (it) f., rivincita (it) f., rivalsa (it) f., ritorsione (it) f.
- Japanese: 復讐 (ja) (ふくしゅう, fukushū), 報復 (ja) (ほうふく, hōfuku)
- Korean: 복수 (ko) (boksu) (復讐 (ko))
- Latin: vindicta (la) f., ultio (la) f.
- Latvian: atriebe (lv), atriebība (lv)
- Lithuanian: kerštas (lt) m.
- Malay: dendam (ms)
- Mongolian: өс авах (mn)
- Norwegian: hevn (no)
- Occitan: revenja (oc) f.
- Polish: zemsta (pl) f.
- Portuguese: vingança (pt) f.
- Romanian: răzbunare (ro) f.
- Russian: месть (ru) (mest’) f., реванш (ru) (revánš) m., мщение (ru) (mščénije) n.
- Scottish Gaelic: dìoghaltas (gd) m.
- Serbian: освета (sr) f. (osveta (sr) f.), odmazda (sr) f.
- Spanish: venganza (es) f.
- Swahili: kisasi (sw)
- Swedish: hämnd (sv) c.
- Thai: ความอาฆาต (kwaam aakâat)
- Turkish: intikam (tr)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: dialedd
- Persian: انتقام (fa), بادا فرا (fa), بادا فرا (fa)
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revenge (third-person singular simple present revenges, present participle revenging, simple past and past participle revenged)
- (reflexive) To take one's revenge (on or upon) someone.
- I will revenge myself upon you!
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To take vengeance.
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to take revenge for an action
to take revenge on an actor
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