revenge
Syllables: re·venge/ɹəˈvɛnd͡ʒ/
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revenge noun: any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
Noun
revenge (usually uncountable, plural revenges)
- Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
- Indifference is the sweetest revenge.
- When I left my wife, she tried to set fire to the house in revenge.
- A win by a previous loser.
- “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- CHAOTICA: Arachnia, death as you know it has no hold on me. My defeat is but a temporary setback. I shall return to seek my revenge.
JANEWAY: He doesn't give up, does he?
PARIS: They never do.
CHAOTICA: Our love was not meant to be, my Queen. But be warned. You have not seen the last of (gurgle)...1999 January 27, Bride of Chaotica! (Star Trek: Voyager) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC
Verb
revenge (third-person singular simple present revenges, present participle revenging, simple past and past participle revenged)
- To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
- Arsenal revenged their loss to Manchester United last time with a 5–0 drubbing this time.
- The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).
- Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
- To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
- a bird that will revenge upon you allc. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- Count it not hard henceforth, when thou dost hear
That a just vengeance was by righteous court
Justly reveng'd. […]1814, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. […], volume III (Paradise), London: […] [J. Barfield] for...
revenge meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
revenge in Hindi
- retaliatory action
- प्रतिशोध pratiśodh, बदला badlā, इंतक़ाम intaqām, इंतिक़ाम intiqām
- to take revenge for an action
- बदला लेना badlā lenā, दण्ड देना daṇḍ denā
revenge in Tamil
- பழி, பழிவாங்கு
revenge in Marathi
- retaliatory action
- सूड sūḍ
revenge in Urdu
- retaliatory action
- بَدْلَہ badla, اِنْتِقام intiqām
More languagesFewer languages
- revenge in Bengali
- প্ৰতিশোধ
- revenge in Telugu
- ప్రతీకారము pratīkāramu
- revenge in Malayalam
- പ്രതികാരം pratikāraṁ, പകവീട്ടുക pakavīṭṭuka, പ്രതികാരം ചെയ്യുക pratikāraṁ ceyyuka
- revenge in Kannada
- ಸೇಡು sēḍu
- revenge in Punjabi
- ਬਦਲਾ
- revenge in Odia
- ପ୍ରତିଶୋଧ
- revenge in Sanskrit
- मेनि mení, चि ci, प्रतिकार pratikāra
- revenge in Sinhala
- පළිය paḷiya
- revenge in Assamese
- পোটক pütok, সেকা xeka, প্ৰতিশোধ protixüdh
- revenge in Pashto
- انتقام enteqām
- revenge in Tagalog
- paghihiganti, resbak, maghiganti
- revenge in Arabic
- ثَأْر ṯaʔr, اِنْتِقَام intiqām, اِنْتَقَمَ intaqama
- revenge in Malay
- dendam
- revenge in Indonesian
- balas dendam, pembalasan
- revenge in Persian
- انتقام گرفتن enteqâm gereftan
- revenge in Thai
- การแก้แค้น, การล้างแค้น, การเอาคืน, แก้แค้น gɛ̂ɛ-kɛ́ɛn
- revenge in Vietnamese
- sự trả thù, phục thù, trả thù
- revenge in Myanmar
- လက်စားချေ lakca:hkye, ကလဲ့စားချေ ka.lai.ca:hkye
- Sindhi
- بدلو bdlo
Examples of revenge in a sentence
- After tearing his fave T-shirt unintentionally, my brother wreaked revenge on me by ripping my most prized blazer apart.
- Liam Neeson has revealed that years ago he contemplated carrying out a racist revenge attack after someone close to him was raped.2019 February 4, Megan Thomas, “Liam Neeson expresses regret for once contemplating racist revenge”, in CNN, archived from the original on...
- However, my veneration for that illustrious man was so great, that on the night when he died, I revenged him finely on his two principal enemies.c. 1840, Leigh Hunt, The Seer; Or, Common-places Refreshed:
Synonyms of revenge
Forms of revenge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | revenges |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | revenges |
| present participle | revenging |
| past participle | revenged |
| past | revenged |
Origin of revenge
From Middle French revenge, a derivation from revenger, from Old French revengier (possibly influenced by Old Occitan revènge (“revenge, comeback”), from Old Occitan revenir (“to come back”)), a variant of Middle French revancher (whence deverbal French revanche), from Old French revenchier. The variants Old French vengier (whence French venger) and Old French venchier are both descended from Latin vindicō, with stress-conditioned different parallel development in the inflectional forms. Doublet of revanche. Compare avenge and vengeance.
From Middle English revengen, from Old French revengier, revenger.
Words formed from revenge
- Montezuma's revenge
- nonrevenge
- Pharaoh's revenge
- prevenge
- revengeance
- revenge buying
- revenge drama
- revengeful
- revenge is a dish best served cold
- revenge is sweet
- revengeless
- revenge porn
- revenge quit
- revenge quitting
- revenge shopping
- revenge spending
- revenge tragedy
- revenge travel
- revengism
- revengeable
- revengement
- revenger
- revengingly
- unrevenged
- unrevenging
Phrases with revenge
- take revenge
- took revenge
- revenge quits
- taken revenge
- takes revenge
- taking revenge
- revenge travels
- Rubik's Revenge
- revenge tragedies
- Moctezuma's revenge
- Revenge of the Fifth
- Revenge of the Sixth
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Words that rhyme with revenge
Questions about revenge
- What does revenge mean?
- Revenge means any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
- What is revenge in Hindi?
- Revenge in Hindi is प्रतिशोध (pratiśodh), बदला (badlā), इंतक़ाम (intaqām). See Revenge meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use revenge in a sentence?
- After tearing his fave T-shirt unintentionally, my brother wreaked revenge on me by ripping my most prized blazer apart.
- What part of speech is revenge?
- Revenge can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce revenge?
- Revenge is pronounced /ɹəˈvɛnd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of revenge?
- The plural of revenge is revenges.
Words near revenge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: revenge (page history and authors); revenge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ప్రతీకారము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಸೇಡು (Kannada) (page history and authors); revenge (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); revenge (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); चि (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); පළිය (Sinhala) (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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