Revenge Definition
- retaliate
- avenge
- revanche
- retribution
- retaliation
- requital
- nemesis
- wreak vengeance
- revanchism
- lex-talionis
- requite
- vengeance
- fix one's wagon
- return the compliment
- settle a score
- to get revenge
Other Word Forms of Revenge
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Revenge
- be revenged
Origin of Revenge
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From Middle French revenge, a derivation from Middle French revenger, from Old French revengier (possibly influenced by Old Provençal revènge (“revenge, comeback"), from Old Provençal revenir (“to come back")), a variant of Middle French revancher, from Old French revenchier. The variants Old French vengier (whence French venger) and Old French venchier are both descended from Latin vindicare, with stress-conditioned different parallel development in the inflectional forms. Compare avenge and vengeance.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English revengen from Old French revengier re- re- vengier to take revenge (from Latin vindicāre to avenge) (from vindex vindic- avenger deik- in Indo-European roots)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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