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Synonyms for revenge
rɪˈvɛndʒre·venge
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
revenge
Revenge is the act of making return for an injury done to oneself by doing injury to another person. Retaliation and revenge are personal and often bitter. Retaliation may be partial; revenge is meant to be complete, and may be excessive. Vengeance, which once meant an indignant vindication of justice, now signifies the most furious and unsparing revenge. Revenge emphasizes more the personal injury in return for which it is inflicted, vengeance the ill desert of those upon whom it is inflicted. A requital is strictly an even return, such as to quit one of obligation for what has been received, and even if poor or unworthy is given as complete and adequate. Avenging and retribution give a solemn sense of exact justice, avenging being more personal in its infliction, whether by God or man, and retribution the impersonal visitation of the doom of righteous law. Compare AVENGE; HATRED; REQUITE.
Synonyms:
avenging, requital, retaliation, retribution, vengeanceAntonyms:
compassion, excuse, forgiveness, grace, mercy, pardon, pardon, pity, reconciliationPreposition:
To take revenge upon the enemy, for the injury.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
revengenoun
Synonyms:
retaliation, vengeance, retribution, requitalAntonyms:
condonation, pardon, compassion, remission
Princeton's WordNet
retaliation, revengeverb
action taken in return for an injury or offense
Synonyms:
retaliationrevenge, avenge, retaliateverb
take revenge for a perceived wrong
"He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"
Synonyms:
strike back, avenge, retaliate
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
revengeverb
Synonyms:
retaliate, requite, take vengeance forrevengeverb
Synonyms:
avenge, vindicate by punishmentrevengenoun
Synonyms:
retaliation, requital (of an injury)
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
revengenoun
Synonyms:
vengeance, retaliationrevengeverb
Synonyms:
avenge, retaliate, wreak vengeance
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "revenge":
vengeance, retaliation, vendetta, avenge, retaliatory, retribution, reprisal, payback, retaliate, vindictiveness, reprisals, retaliating, contrast, avenging
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #3990 | contrast | |
| #8299 | revenge | |
| #16279 | vengeance | |
| #23183 | retaliation | |
| #26663 | payback | |
| #30082 | vendetta | |
| #33262 | retribution | |
| #47557 | avenge | |
| #55596 | retaliate | |
| #57902 | reprisal | |
| #60764 | retaliatory | |
| #63214 | reprisals | |
| #73403 | avenging | |
| #143176 | retaliating | |
| #165650 | vindictiveness | |
| #307426 | requital |
How to use revenge in a sentence?
If anyone was going to make a revenge bait package and over-engineer the crap out of it, it was going to be me.
I think success is the best revenge — and silence, as a presence, when I chose to change my future, my life, I was like, ‘ Where’s the one place I can find silence ? ’.
I am here today for there to be some accountability, not here for revenge, I'm here for accountability and for justice.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
Translations for revenge
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- انتقام, ثأرArabic
- intiqam, qisasAzerbaijani
- помстаBelarusian
- мъст, отмъщениеBulgarian
- revenja, revenjar-seCatalan, Valencian
- pomstaCzech
- dialeddWelsh
- hævnDanish
- rächen, RacheGerman
- εκδίκηση, εκδικούμαιGreek
- venĝoEsperanto
- venganzaSpanish
- kättemaksEstonian
- mendekuBasque
- انتقامPersian
- kosto, kostaaFinnish
- venger, vengeanceFrench
- díoltasIrish
- dìoghaltasScottish Gaelic
- vinganzaGalician
- נקמהHebrew
- बदलाHindi
- bosszúHungarian
- քեն, ոխ, վրեժArmenian
- balas dendamIndonesian
- hefndIcelandic
- vendicarsi, ritorsione, rivalsa, vendetta, rivincitaItalian
- リベンジ, 復讐, 報復Japanese
- შურისძიება, შურისგებაGeorgian
- кек, өшKazakh
- ಸೇಡುKannada
- 복수, 復讐Korean
- кекKyrgyz
- vindicta, ultioLatin
- kerštasLithuanian
- atriebe, atriebībaLatvian
- ngakinga, utoMāori
- одмазда, одмаздуваMacedonian
- өс авахMongolian
- dendamMalay
- wraakDutch
- hevnNorwegian
- revenjaOccitan
- zemstaPolish
- vingançaPortuguese
- răzbunare, răzbunaRomanian
- месть, реванш, отмщение, отомстить, воздаяние, мщение, мститьRussian
- одмазда, òdmazda, osvetiti se, освета, ȍsvetaSerbo-Croatian
- pomstaSlovak
- maščevanjeSlovene
- gjakmarrje, hakmarrjeAlbanian
- hämndSwedish
- kisasiSwahili
- பழிவாங்குதல்Tamil
- ప్రతీకారంTelugu
- интиқомTajik
- ความอาฆาตThai
- intikamTurkish
- үчTatar
- помстаUkrainian
- بدلہUrdu
- trả thùVietnamese
- נעקאָמעYiddish
- 复仇Chinese
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