noun, verb
noun [U]
1 something that you do in order to make sb suffer because they have made you suffer:
He swore to take (his) revenge on his political enemies. * She is seeking revenge for the murder of her husband. * The bombing was in revenge for the assassination. * an act of revenge * revenge attacks / killings
2 (sport) the defeat of a person or team that defeated you in a previous game:
The team wanted to get revenge for their defeat earlier in the season.
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
revenge yourself on sb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for revenge is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is revenge a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, revenge is tagged as verb.
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