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
From the library
And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!
Darcy so bad as this--though I have never liked him, I had not thought so very ill of him--I had supposed him to be despising his fellow-creatures in general, but did not suspect him of descending to such malicious revenge, such injustice, such inhumanity as this!”
His revenge would have been complete indeed.
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.
Other matches
Learn revenge in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.