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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revenge \Re*venge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Revenged}, p. pr &
vb n. {Revenging}.] [OF. revengier, F. revancher pref. re-
re- + OF vengier to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L.
vindicare See {Vindicate}, {Vengerance}, and cf
{Revindicate}.]
1. 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. --Ld. Berners
The gods are just and will revenge our cause
--Dryden.
Come Antony, and young Octavius come Revenge
yourselves alone on Cassius. --Shak.
2. To inflict injury for in a spiteful, wrong or malignant
spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
Syn: To avenge; vindicate. See {Avenge}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revenge \Re*venge"\, v. i.
To take vengeance; -- with upon [Obs.] ``A bird that will
revenge upon you all.'' --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revenge \Re*venge"\, n.
1. 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.
--Bacon.
2. 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. --Shak.
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more
savage and cruel. --Kames.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
revenge
n : action taken in return for an injury or offense [syn: {retaliation}]
v : take revenge; "avenge for a wrong"; "take vengeance or
revenge for a wrong" [syn: {avenge}, {retaliate}]
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