Word
Revenge
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
re-venge
Definition
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or
malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
- v. i. - To take vengeance; -- with
- n. - The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning
of evil for evil.
- n. - The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to
one who has done us an injury.
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