Another word for revenge
a-z
Noun
The act of retaliating
- Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
- Repayment in kind, as for an injury; retaliation.
- Punishment administered in return for a wrong committed.
- Punishment or reward distributed in a future life based on performance in this one.
- Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
- An act of violent response.
- The act of requiting.
- Return, as for an injury or friendly act.
- The act or an instance of retaliating for a loss or injury.
- The act or practice of forcibly seizing an enemy's goods or citizens in retaliation for a loss or injury inflicted.
- An alternating back-and-forth movement.
- The act or fact of reciprocating; interchange.
- A blow delivered in return.
- A return attack.
- To deliver a return attack or make a return attack against.
- An act of retaliation; a counterattack
- Any action in opposition to a previous action.
The quality or condition of being vindictive
- The condition of being vindictive
- A malevolent desire for revenge
- The state or quality of being vengeful
- Malicious ill will prompting an urge to hurt or humiliate another person.
- To treat with spite; show spite toward:
See also:
© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Another word for revenge
Noun
The act of returning an injury
- Present participle of avenge.
- Punishment administered in return for a wrong committed.
- Punishment or reward distributed in a future life based on performance in this one.
- Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
- An act of violent response.
- Political and military strategy or action intended to oppose and forcefully suppress insurgency.
- An armed attack, especially one made from a place surrounded by enemy forces.
- A flight of a combat aircraft on a mission.
- To go on a sortie.
- A return attack.
- To deliver a return attack or make a return attack against.
- Repayment in kind, as for an injury; retaliation.
- Present participle of get even.
- The act or an instance of retaliating for a loss or injury.
- The act or practice of forcibly seizing an enemy's goods or citizens in retaliation for a loss or injury inflicted.
- The act of requiting.
- Return, as for an injury or friendly act.
- Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
See also:Antonyms:The desire to obtain revenge
- A feud between two families that arises from the injury or killing of the member of one family by a member of the other family, leading to long-lasting animosity and retaliatory acts of revenge.
- A series of acts attacking or attempting to injure another:
- A feeling of animosity; ill will.
- An attitude that informs one's actions; disposition or intention.
- In Jungian psychology, the masculine inner personality as present in women.
- Unfriendly feeling; enmity.
- The state or quality of being vengeful
- The quality or state of being malevolent.
- Malevolent behavior.
- The property of being ruthless
- The quality or state of being implacable.
- Bitter, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will:
- The condition of being vindictive
- A malevolent desire for revenge
Verb
-
- (idiomatic) To behave toward others in a manner resembling or commensurate with their behavior towards oneself, especially in a situation where one is insulted or otherwise ill-treated.
- To correct or set right; adjust:
- To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
- To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare:
- To come into possession or use of; receive:
- To meet with or incur:
- To go after and obtain:
- The practice of compromise.
- Lively exchange of ideas or conversation:
- (idiomatic) To retaliate; to take revenge.
- to pay what one owes (a debt, a bill etc.)
- To give or take mutually; interchange:
- To show, feel, or give in response or return:
- To give and take something mutually.
- To pay back:
- To give back, either in return or in compensation:
- To make a return or compensation for:
- To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault.
- To inflict a penalty for (an offense).
- To handle or use roughly; damage or hurt:
- (informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
- (intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
- To pay back; to repay.
- To avenge; to get back at.
- To make return for (something done or felt) in a similar or appropriate fashion:
- To avenge (an insult or wrongdoing).
- To respond to (another) or do something to or for (another) in return for that person's action or emotion:
- To clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof:
- To defend, maintain, or insist on the recognition of (one's rights, for example).
- To demonstrate or prove the value or validity of; justify:
- To do something in response to an action done to oneself or an associate, especially to attack or injure someone as a response to a hurtful action.
- To pay back (an injury) in kind.
- To inflict a punishment or penalty in return for; revenge:
- To take vengeance on behalf of:
Synonym Study
© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.