revenge
Meaning of revenge
noun
- the action of hurting or harming someone in return for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands.
other spurned wives have taken public revenge on their husbands
- inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself.
I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you
late Middle English: from Old French revencher, from late Latin revindicare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vindicare ‘claim, avenge’.
Information about revenge
- The plural form of revenge is: revenges.
- Languages in which revenge is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of revenge
re-venge
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- revenge is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
revenge synonyms
Meaning retaliation:
Meaning avenge:
Meaning punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong:
Meaning punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act:
Meaning an act of retaliation:
Meaning an accusation in response to one from someone else:
Meaning remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance:
Meaning fulfilment of one's wishes, expectations, or needs, or the pleasure derived from this:
Meaning the action of paying back a loan:
Meaning profit from an investment equal to the initial outlay:
Meaning come to have (something); receive:
Meaning make counter accusations:
Translation of revenge
- German: Rache, Vergeltung
- French: vengeance, revanche, représailles, rétorsion, talion
- Italian: vendetta, vendicarsi
- Portuguese: vingança
- Spanish: venganza, desquite, represalia, revancha
Anagrams of revenge
Words that rhyme with revenge
Benge, breenge, peenge, reenge, wheenge, divergenge, Stonehenge, Woodhenge, henge, stonehenge, alenge, challenge, counterchallenge, elenge, mischallenge, prechallenge, rechallenge, vollenge, excommenge, menge, sprenge, Senge, kitenge, tenge, Provenge, avenge, nonrevenge, prerevenge, scavenge, venge, wenge, lozenge
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