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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
3. intransitive verb. To take vengeance; -- with
4. noun. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
5. noun. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
6. noun. action taken in return for an injury or offense

   Synonyms: retaliation

7. verb. take revenge for a perceived wrong

   "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"

   Synonyms: avenge, retaliate

Synonyms

retaliation, avenge, retaliate

Common word forms

revenged, revenger, revenges, revenging, revengeful, revengeable, revengeless, revengement

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