revenge
/ɹəˈvɛnd͡ʒ/ noun B2- Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice. · They took revenge on their enemies.· Indifference is the sweetest revenge.
- A win by a previous loser.
Plural revenges
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A FARMER, who bore a grudge against a Fox for robbing his poultry yard, caught him at last, and being determined to take an ample revenge, tied some rope well soaked in oil to his tail, and set it on fire.
The Horse, desiring to revenge himself on the stranger, asked a man if he were willing to help him in punishing the Stag.
From that hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man.
Escaping, the Fly said mockingly, “You who have wished to revenge, even with death, the Prick of a tiny insect, see what you have done to yourself to add insult to injury?” The Bald Man replied, “I can easily make peace with myself, because I know there was no intention to hurt.
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