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[ verb ] take revenge for a perceived wrong

Synonyms

retaliate revenge

Examples

"He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"

Used in print

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

In any case but the last , such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; the moral powers no more than the physical and mental , can bear overstraining .

Related terms

punish get_even retaliation

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