Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - revenge
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Revenge
revenge
(revenges, revenging, revenged) 1. Revenge involves hurting or punishing someone who has hurt or harmed you. The attackers were said to be taking revenge on the 14-year-old, claiming he was a school bully... N-UNCOUNT: oft N on/for/against n 2. If you revenge yourself on someone who has hurt you, you hurt them in return. (WRITTEN) The Sunday Mercury accused her of trying to revenge herself on her former lover... ...the relatives of murdered villagers wanting to revenge the dead. = avenge VERB: V pron-refl on n, V n
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I. transitive verb (~d; revenging) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~r, revengier, from re- + venger to avenge — more at vengeance Date: 14th century 1. to avenge (as oneself) usually by retaliating in kind or degree 2. to inflict injury in return for ~ an insult • ~r noun II. noun Etymology: Middle French ~, revenche, from revengier, revenchier to ~ Date: circa 1547 1. a desire for ~ motivated by ~ 2. an act or instance of retaliating in order to get even plotted her ~ 3. an opportunity for getting satisfaction sought ~ through a rematch ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 retaliation for an offence or injury. 2 an act of retaliation. 3 the desire for this; a vindictive feeling. 4 (in games) a chance to win after an earlier defeat. --v. 1 tr. (in refl. or passive; often foll. by on, upon) inflict retaliation for an offence. 2 tr. take revenge for (an offence). 3 tr. avenge (a person). 4 intr. take vengeance. Derivatives revenger n. Etymology: ME f. OF revenger, revencher f. LL revindicare (as RE-, vindicare lay claim to) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. месть, мщение, отмщение in (out of) revenge —- в отместку to have (to take) one's revenge upon smb. (for smth.) —- отомстить кому-л. (за что-л.) 2. жажда мести to feed one's revenge —- лелеять мечту о мести there was revenge in his heart —- он был охвачен жаждой мести (мщения), он горел желанием отомстить 3. реванш (в играх и т. п.) to have one's revenge —- (попытаться) взять реванш to give smb. his revenge —- дать кому-л. возможность отыграться 4. мстить, отомстить to revenge an injustice —- отомстить за несправедливость to revenge smb.'s death —- отомстить за чью-л. смерть to revenge oneself upon smb. for smth. —- отомстить кому-л. за что-л. to be revenged —- быть отмщенным ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) мщение, месть, отмщение; to take (ones) revenge on/upon smb. - отомстить кому-л.; in revenge - в отместку 2) реванш; to give smb. his revenge - дать кому-л. возможность отыграться 2. v. мстить, отомстить; to revenge an insult - отомстить за оскорбление; to revenge oneself - отомстить (on, upon - кому-либо; for - за что-л.); Hamlet revenged his fathers death on his uncle. Hamlet revenged himself on his uncle. ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~1 n 1 something you do in order to punish someone who has harmed or offended you + for (Hamlet was seeking revenge for his father's murder.) get/take revenge (on) (He took revenge on his employers by setting fire to the factory. | be out for revenge (=be trying to get your revenge) | in revenge (=to punish someone)) (a bomb attack in revenge for the imprisonment of the terrorists) 2 get your revenge to defeat someone who has previously defeated you in a sport - revengeful adj ~2 v revenge yourself on/be revenged on formal to punish someone who has harmed you (his unconscious desire to be revenged on her for her disloyalty) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1375, from O.Fr. revengier, from re-, intensive prefix, + vengier "take revenge." The noun is first recorded 1547. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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