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eye for eye

eye for eye is the alternative form of eye for an eye.

Meaning of eye for an eye

Noun

eye for an eye

  1. (idiomatic) Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person.

Questions about eye for eye

What is eye for eye the alternative form of?
Eye for eye is the alternative form of eye for an eye.

Words near eye for eye in the dictionary

  1. eye fillet
  2. eye fillets
  3. eye flies
  4. eye fly
  5. eye for an eye
  6. eye for eye
  7. eye fuck
  8. eye fucked
  9. eye fucking
  10. eye fucks
  11. Eye Green

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eye for eye (page history and authors); eye for an eye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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