Dictionary Entry
revenge
revenge is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
- 2transitive verb
To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
- 3intransitive verb
To take vengeance; -- with
- 4noun
The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
- 5noun
The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
- 6noun
action taken in return for an injury or offense
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- 7verb
take revenge for a perceived wrong
"He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"
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