Definition of revenge in English:

revenge

noun rɪˈvɛn(d)ʒrəˈvɛndʒ

mass noun

1The action of hurting or harming someone in return for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands.
复仇，报复
other spurned wives have taken public revenge on their husbands
其他被抛弃的妻子已公开向她们的丈夫报复。
Example sentencesExamples
- So, in revenge for the killing of four American mercenaries, a city was seized, bombed, and a massacre of hundreds of civilians took place.
- Sarah Monette is writing her doctoral thesis on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy.
- In both cases, death apparently feels as cheated as paying audiences and wants to exact a bloody revenge.
- But as time went by, and there was no news of the men, I decided they were unlikely to bother taking the trouble and risk of searching me out in revenge for a minor setback.
- Sometimes they get your name wrong in revenge for you never having been to their church except once, drunk, at Christmas.
- Doune leapt at him down the stairs his great sword high above his head and was ready to chop the mage in two in revenge for nearly killing Eltriuqs.
- But you know what you do: just remember that living well is the best revenge.
- Instead of taking revenge on his father's murderer, he joins his gang.
- Two charges of affray relating to incidents in February when he had been thrown out of clubs and returned for revenge saw him sentenced to 18 months to run consecutively, giving him a total ten years.
- Jay also has a real fascination with venereal disease, snorting cocaine and taking violent revenge on cheating women.
- Detectives will investigate whether the killing was in revenge for an assault allegedly carried out by Mr Curran on a young teenage girl on the northside.
- Steven McDonnell was insistent that there is no thoughts of a revenge mission next week.
- Sam soon discovers that what he writes comes true and decides to get sweet revenge on his tormentors.
- He's got an enormous fortune, and he vows revenge on the enemies of his father.
- They told the judge that they killed Qmeil in revenge for the killings of six members of their clan a decade ago.
- Their intent is to exact revenge for a death or wrongdoing that took place in the past.
- But in the tradition of revenge thrillers, they don't make absolutely sure that Frank is dead.
- When the kidnapping goes horribly wrong, everyone is left hurting and searching for revenge.
- He then returned to his neighborhood and gathered his friends for a revenge attack.
Synonyms
vengeance, retribution, retaliation, reprisal, requital, recrimination, an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth), tit for tat, measure for measure, getting even, redress, satisfaction, repayment, payback
Latin lex talionis
rare ultion
1. 1.1 The desire to repay an injury or wrong.
  it was difficult not to be overwhelmed with feelings of hate and revenge
  想不被仇恨和报复欲望所左右是不容易的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many of the stories are motivated by revenge, he adds.
  The mother feels that he is motivated by revenge.
  No matter how hard you try to avoid collusion with the beast, eventually, you come to realize there's no way out of the cycle of revenge and desire.
  Whether through an act of revenge or a genuine desire to check on the inner workings of the organisation, he has requested to see the financial records of the PGA Tour.
  As revenge fantasies go, Alexandra's Project has almost nothing going for it.
  Try and think of a commercial of any sort that isn't based on greed, envy, fear, hatred, revenge, thrusting ambition, or sheer lust.
  Police believe the attack could have been motivated by revenge.
  Synonyms
  vengefulness, vindictiveness, vitriol, virulence, spite, spitefulness, malice, maliciousness, malevolence, malignancy, ill will, animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, acrimony, venom, poison, hate, hatred, rancour, bitterness
  literary revengefulness, maleficence
2. 1.2 (in sporting contexts) the defeat of a person or team by whom one was beaten in a previous encounter.
  （体育用语）（上次败方的）雪耻
  Zimbabwe snatched the game 18–16, but the Spanish had their revenge later
  津巴布韦队以18比16拿下这场比赛，但西班牙在后面的比赛中一雪前耻。
  Example sentencesExamples
  League runner-up Bhinneka Sritex will be looking for revenge after their finals defeat against Aspac.
  In the relay, the Americans got sweet revenge for a five-second defeat to the Aussies four years ago in Sydney, while Italy took bronze.
  One of his losses was to Akira Oguchi, on whom he gained his revenge when he knocked the Japanese boxer out in five rounds in Bangkok in September 1961.
  As White wryly remarks, the Irish have been talking about revenge since they lost in Bloemfontein and Cape Town and should not need to be motivated more than they already are.
  For Eriksson there is some hope of sporting revenge over the man whose Brazil side won the 2002 World Cup quarter-final meeting.
  They will be hell-bent on revenge after losing to Bradford on the final day of last season at Northcliffe.
  Who among us can wait for Owens' two games a year against the Eagles, to see if he can exact a measure of revenge on the team that made him pay?
  The Bombers took revenge in the rematch, 24-17, and went on to win the national title.
  This should be a cracking encounter with Enniscrone seeking revenge for last year's defeat by Calry in the quarter final of the competition.
  Will the team get its revenge in its new home this season?
  Bucks were outplayed by Silver Stars who took revenge for a previous defeat.
  Energized by hosting a Monday night game, the Eagles will exact some prime-time revenge against the team that routed them in Week 5.
  Bolton Woods A gained revenge for their home defeat by Bradford Tigers A in under-eight Group C of the Keybury League.
  Smith ached for revenge after a heartbreaking defeat his junior year.
  And Hartley knows they would love to gain revenge for September's back to back cup and league defeats against the Greens.
  Pintusevich-Block was out for revenge after narrowly losing to Jones in the 1997 final.
  Mugeyi capped his resurgent form with an acrobatic diving winning headed-goal in the 55th minute to earn his side sweet revenge against the Limpopo team.
  Keighley travel to Sheffield a week on Sunday looking for revenge for two defeats at the Don Valley Stadium last season.
  The effort also provided McCarty with revenge against the team made him a first-round pick in 1991 but gave up on him in 1995.
  Saracens returned to second team championship fixtures after a four week gap with a trip to Park Lane hoping to gain revenge for a narrow defeat at Cross Green earlier in the season.

verb rɪˈvɛn(d)ʒrəˈvɛndʒ

revenge oneself" or "be revengedliterary

1Inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself.
复仇，报复
I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you
我一定要报复你们所有的人。
Example sentencesExamples
- But then, given their penchant for revenging themselves on their enemies by holding them down and nailing their knees to the floor, perhaps no-one wanted to give offence by bestowing on them the wrong sort of nickname.
- This is what traps them in their cage: None of them thinks about running away or revenging themselves upon the ‘normal’ members of society.
- Yes, it will follow, and may the wrongs which Irishmen have suffered be revenged both soon and sudden.
- Once started, this violence becomes cumulative, especially in a society where the dead must be revenged, and in the light of a failing State.
- Possessed by morbid drives that defy easy psychological analysis, they pursued a revolutionary domestic policy, not because they had any faith in its merits but in order to be revenged on their enemies and consolidate their power.
Synonyms
take revenge on, exact/wreak revenge on, get one's revenge on, avenge oneself on, take vengeance on, get even with, settle a/the score with, get, pay back, pay out, retaliate on/against, take reprisals against, exact retribution on, let someone see how it feels, give someone their just deserts, give someone a dose/taste of their own medicine, give as good as one gets
give/return like for like, give tit for tat, take an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth)
informal give someone their comeuppance
British informal get one's own back on
archaic recriminate
rare give someone a Roland for an Oliver
1. 1.1with object Inflict revenge on behalf of (someone else)
  替（人）报仇
  it's a pity he chose that way to revenge his sister
  遗憾的是，他选择了那样的方式为妹妹报仇。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the original script, the bad guy was actually revenging the hero for something which happened in their childhood.
  He told me he was thinking of ‘going back to the mountains’, as they say, to join the paramilitaries and revenge his brother.
  The only difference was that we did it to do justice and revenge the innocent victims.
  Will no one revenge us of the injuries we have sustained from these turbulent priests?
  Be sure that sooner or later someone will try to revenge him.
  One in five of the pilots in the Battle of Britain came from overseas and, far from fighting for an Arcadian Britain, some were revenging the invasion of their homelands.
  She eventually comes to the decision that her children should be killed in order to revenge Jason for what he did to her.
  And when I do eventually get the chance to revenge Jenny, I'm not going to hide behind a gun.
  Stand in as pretend boyfriend when necessary - that includes revenging me to large scary looking men on dark nights.
  He acted to revenge the mother of his child and their son.
  His ill-treatment of her relatives is surely the quickest way to revenge her.
  Originally Hotta was among those who joined Kuranosuke Oishi in the plot to revenge their lord; however, in the end, he renounced his vow and took a new name.
  Of course tomorrow I would revenge her innocently.
  They wanted to revenge their father and they had secretly trained themselves for this moment.
  Looks like revenging her victims wasn't your only objective.
  You lived to revenge your father against Seth, who betrayed and slew him.
  ‘Finally I have revenged my family and country,’ I yelled.
  She has also asked him to not engage in any other activities till he revenges her against this giant.
  But it's even worse than for Hamlet, that Orestes has to revenge his father by killing his mother.
  She has to dress as a man to survive in the ruthless and self-centred world of the panners and fend off all kinds of unwanted, and hilarious, attentions as she bravely strives to get her man and revenge her family.
2. 1.2 Inflict retribution for (a wrong or injury done to oneself or another)
  报（被冤枉，被伤害）之仇；洗雪（侮辱）
  her brother was slain, and she revenged his death
  她的哥哥被人杀害了，她报了杀兄之仇。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His commitment to revenge the death of his people was struck short by his own death in the next measles epidemic, five years later.
  As they are about to take their leave, Don Quijote offers thanks to the innkeeper and offers to revenge any wrongs ever done to him.
  His primary motivation is to revenge the deaths of his fallen comrades.
  Pacorus, the son of Orodes, the King of Parthia, has been killed in order to revenge the death of Marcus Crassus.
  The central character is Vendice, intent on revenging the death of his mistress, poisoned by the lecherous old duke.
  You know they will revenge the death of one of their own.
  What was the use of revenging his death upon a man who was as much stricken by that death as I was?
  When they plan to send him to a military school, Ivan demands to be sent back to the front, seeking to revenge his parents' death.
  As far as Hamlet was concerned, revenging a death was the best reason for an assassination.
  Thus the recent run of Irish victories ended and last year's desperately disappointing draw gloriously revenged.
  I lay dead in front of you, and yet you do not even revenge my death.
  Nevertheless, the foothills of the mountains, where the Soga brothers once revenged their father's death, are now a resort area with winter skiing and other sport activities.
  The leaders of the rival gang are looking over their shoulders for the Westies, who have yet to revenge the murder of Bernard Sugg, brother of Stephen, last August.
  Although you have a certain amount of freedom, the game centres on a main quest - revenging your father's murder, finding your mother and sister - and various side quests.
  The truth eventually emerges: her father died in the communalist rioting of 1984, during which mobs killed thousands of Sikhs, claiming to be revenging the death of Indira Gandhi at the hands of her Sikh bodyguards.
  Seemingly possessed by his hands, he becomes a murderer, choking friends and foe alike, vaguely seeking to revenge the death of Meta's father.
  His quest for justice begins in his ‘O eyes, no eyes’ soliloquy where he begs heaven to revenge his son's death.
  I wish it were not so, but I have resolved to revenge my father's death, and it is you who have taken him from me!
  He is the wildly popular or beloved hero who revenges wrongs against the nation.
  Ryan held his brother for many moments before standing up to revenge his death.
  Synonyms
  avenge, take/exact revenge for, make retaliation for, retaliate for, exact retribution for, take reprisals for, get redress for, get satisfaction for
  requite

Phrases

revenge is a dish best served (or eaten) cold

proverb Vengeance is often more satisfying if it is not exacted immediately.
〈谚〉君子报仇，十年不晚
Example sentencesExamples
- If revenge is a dish best eaten cold, Clive Woodward was enjoying his morsel out of the deep freeze last night.
- You know, He-Man, they say revenge is a dish best served cold, but I would much rather serve it hot.
- If revenge is a dish best served cold, it was only appropriate that Arsenal's first goal came from Vieira.
- Whoever said that revenge is a dish best served cold didn't know what the hell they were talking about.
- The factions have long memories and revenge is a dish best served cold.
- However, revenge is a dish best eaten cold, preferably not eaten at all, as it ranks as probably the nastiest emotion to which humanity is heir.
- Eventually, after being distracted by an unnecessary subplot about goings-on in Vegas, Jack unravels the cover-up and starts proving that revenge is a dish best served cold.
- If C. Montgomery Burns is right and revenge is a dish best served cold, this may be one of Jenkins' most delicious years ever.
- If revenge is a dish best served cold, there's nowhere more chilled than the grave.
- If revenge is a dish best served cold, then how come the Nets were so damn hot against the Lakers?

Derivatives

revenger

noun rɪˈvɛn(d)ʒə

archaic

A person who exacts punishment or inflicts retribution for an injury or wrong.
an obsessive and cruel revenger
Example sentencesExamples
- What Hieronimo and Bellimperia, the revengers, need is a way to get close to the murderers, while holding weapons.
- Berry's a mystically empowered revenger who brings down an evil cosmetics company that has a sinister secret behind its new anti-aging products.
- The original Pan is shown in a chilling Saki story as a murderous revenger against female bossiness and practicality.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French revencher, from late Latin revindicare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vindicare 'claim, avenge'.

‘Revenge’, said the 17th-century courtier and scholar Francis Bacon, ‘is a kind of wild justice.’ The idea that wrongs can be most successfully avenged by someone who has taken the time to plan their response is formulated in the proverb first recorded in the late 19th century, revenge is a dish best eaten cold. The word is from Old French revencher, which was from Latin vindicare ‘to claim, avenge’—the root of vindicate (early 17th century) and avenge (Late Middle English).

Rhymes

avenge, henge, Stonehenge

Definition of revenge in US English:

revenge

nounrəˈvɛndʒrəˈvenj

1The action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands.
复仇，报复
other spurned wives have taken public revenge on their husbands
其他被抛弃的妻子已公开向她们的丈夫报复。
Example sentencesExamples
- Doune leapt at him down the stairs his great sword high above his head and was ready to chop the mage in two in revenge for nearly killing Eltriuqs.
- Detectives will investigate whether the killing was in revenge for an assault allegedly carried out by Mr Curran on a young teenage girl on the northside.
- They told the judge that they killed Qmeil in revenge for the killings of six members of their clan a decade ago.
- Steven McDonnell was insistent that there is no thoughts of a revenge mission next week.
- So, in revenge for the killing of four American mercenaries, a city was seized, bombed, and a massacre of hundreds of civilians took place.
- In both cases, death apparently feels as cheated as paying audiences and wants to exact a bloody revenge.
- He then returned to his neighborhood and gathered his friends for a revenge attack.
- When the kidnapping goes horribly wrong, everyone is left hurting and searching for revenge.
- Sam soon discovers that what he writes comes true and decides to get sweet revenge on his tormentors.
- Two charges of affray relating to incidents in February when he had been thrown out of clubs and returned for revenge saw him sentenced to 18 months to run consecutively, giving him a total ten years.
- But in the tradition of revenge thrillers, they don't make absolutely sure that Frank is dead.
- Sarah Monette is writing her doctoral thesis on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy.
- Their intent is to exact revenge for a death or wrongdoing that took place in the past.
- But you know what you do: just remember that living well is the best revenge.
- Instead of taking revenge on his father's murderer, he joins his gang.
- Sometimes they get your name wrong in revenge for you never having been to their church except once, drunk, at Christmas.
- But as time went by, and there was no news of the men, I decided they were unlikely to bother taking the trouble and risk of searching me out in revenge for a minor setback.
- He's got an enormous fortune, and he vows revenge on the enemies of his father.
- Jay also has a real fascination with venereal disease, snorting cocaine and taking violent revenge on cheating women.
Synonyms
vengeance, retribution, retaliation, reprisal, requital, recrimination, an eye for an eye, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, tit for tat, measure for measure, getting even, redress, satisfaction, repayment, payback
1. 1.1 The desire to inflict retribution.
  报复欲望，复仇心
  it was difficult not to be overwhelmed with feelings of hate and revenge
  想不被仇恨和报复欲望所左右是不容易的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Try and think of a commercial of any sort that isn't based on greed, envy, fear, hatred, revenge, thrusting ambition, or sheer lust.
  Many of the stories are motivated by revenge, he adds.
  As revenge fantasies go, Alexandra's Project has almost nothing going for it.
  The mother feels that he is motivated by revenge.
  Police believe the attack could have been motivated by revenge.
  No matter how hard you try to avoid collusion with the beast, eventually, you come to realize there's no way out of the cycle of revenge and desire.
  Whether through an act of revenge or a genuine desire to check on the inner workings of the organisation, he has requested to see the financial records of the PGA Tour.
  Synonyms
  vengefulness, vindictiveness, vitriol, virulence, spite, spitefulness, malice, maliciousness, malevolence, malignancy, ill will, animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, acrimony, venom, poison, hate, hatred, rancour, bitterness
2. 1.2 (in sports) the defeat of a person or team by whom one was beaten in a previous encounter.
  （体育用语）（上次败方的）雪耻
  the Yankees wanted to get their revenge for losing to the Dodgers in the 1955 Series
  Example sentencesExamples
  Will the team get its revenge in its new home this season?
  One of his losses was to Akira Oguchi, on whom he gained his revenge when he knocked the Japanese boxer out in five rounds in Bangkok in September 1961.
  As White wryly remarks, the Irish have been talking about revenge since they lost in Bloemfontein and Cape Town and should not need to be motivated more than they already are.
  Pintusevich-Block was out for revenge after narrowly losing to Jones in the 1997 final.
  Mugeyi capped his resurgent form with an acrobatic diving winning headed-goal in the 55th minute to earn his side sweet revenge against the Limpopo team.
  Who among us can wait for Owens' two games a year against the Eagles, to see if he can exact a measure of revenge on the team that made him pay?
  Keighley travel to Sheffield a week on Sunday looking for revenge for two defeats at the Don Valley Stadium last season.
  For Eriksson there is some hope of sporting revenge over the man whose Brazil side won the 2002 World Cup quarter-final meeting.
  Saracens returned to second team championship fixtures after a four week gap with a trip to Park Lane hoping to gain revenge for a narrow defeat at Cross Green earlier in the season.
  In the relay, the Americans got sweet revenge for a five-second defeat to the Aussies four years ago in Sydney, while Italy took bronze.
  Energized by hosting a Monday night game, the Eagles will exact some prime-time revenge against the team that routed them in Week 5.
  Smith ached for revenge after a heartbreaking defeat his junior year.
  Bucks were outplayed by Silver Stars who took revenge for a previous defeat.
  Bolton Woods A gained revenge for their home defeat by Bradford Tigers A in under-eight Group C of the Keybury League.
  The effort also provided McCarty with revenge against the team made him a first-round pick in 1991 but gave up on him in 1995.
  League runner-up Bhinneka Sritex will be looking for revenge after their finals defeat against Aspac.
  They will be hell-bent on revenge after losing to Bradford on the final day of last season at Northcliffe.
  This should be a cracking encounter with Enniscrone seeking revenge for last year's defeat by Calry in the quarter final of the competition.
  And Hartley knows they would love to gain revenge for September's back to back cup and league defeats against the Greens.
  The Bombers took revenge in the rematch, 24-17, and went on to win the national title.

verbrəˈvɛndʒrəˈvenj

[with object]literary

1Inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to (someone else)
复仇，报复
it's a pity he chose that way to revenge his sister
遗憾的是，他选择了那样的方式为妹妹报仇。
Example sentencesExamples
- Stand in as pretend boyfriend when necessary - that includes revenging me to large scary looking men on dark nights.
- She eventually comes to the decision that her children should be killed in order to revenge Jason for what he did to her.
- But it's even worse than for Hamlet, that Orestes has to revenge his father by killing his mother.
- In the original script, the bad guy was actually revenging the hero for something which happened in their childhood.
- Will no one revenge us of the injuries we have sustained from these turbulent priests?
- You lived to revenge your father against Seth, who betrayed and slew him.
- And when I do eventually get the chance to revenge Jenny, I'm not going to hide behind a gun.
- He acted to revenge the mother of his child and their son.
- Looks like revenging her victims wasn't your only objective.
- Of course tomorrow I would revenge her innocently.
- His ill-treatment of her relatives is surely the quickest way to revenge her.
- She has also asked him to not engage in any other activities till he revenges her against this giant.
- Originally Hotta was among those who joined Kuranosuke Oishi in the plot to revenge their lord; however, in the end, he renounced his vow and took a new name.
- He told me he was thinking of ‘going back to the mountains’, as they say, to join the paramilitaries and revenge his brother.
- Be sure that sooner or later someone will try to revenge him.
- The only difference was that we did it to do justice and revenge the innocent victims.
- One in five of the pilots in the Battle of Britain came from overseas and, far from fighting for an Arcadian Britain, some were revenging the invasion of their homelands.
- ‘Finally I have revenged my family and country,’ I yelled.
- She has to dress as a man to survive in the ruthless and self-centred world of the panners and fend off all kinds of unwanted, and hilarious, attentions as she bravely strives to get her man and revenge her family.
- They wanted to revenge their father and they had secretly trained themselves for this moment.
1. 1.1 Inflict hurt or harm on someone for (an injury or wrong done to oneself or another)
  复仇，报复
  her brother was slain, and she revenged his death
  她的哥哥被人杀害了，她报了杀兄之仇。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As they are about to take their leave, Don Quijote offers thanks to the innkeeper and offers to revenge any wrongs ever done to him.
  I lay dead in front of you, and yet you do not even revenge my death.
  I wish it were not so, but I have resolved to revenge my father's death, and it is you who have taken him from me!
  You know they will revenge the death of one of their own.
  As far as Hamlet was concerned, revenging a death was the best reason for an assassination.
  Ryan held his brother for many moments before standing up to revenge his death.
  Seemingly possessed by his hands, he becomes a murderer, choking friends and foe alike, vaguely seeking to revenge the death of Meta's father.
  Thus the recent run of Irish victories ended and last year's desperately disappointing draw gloriously revenged.
  The truth eventually emerges: her father died in the communalist rioting of 1984, during which mobs killed thousands of Sikhs, claiming to be revenging the death of Indira Gandhi at the hands of her Sikh bodyguards.
  His primary motivation is to revenge the deaths of his fallen comrades.
  He is the wildly popular or beloved hero who revenges wrongs against the nation.
  When they plan to send him to a military school, Ivan demands to be sent back to the front, seeking to revenge his parents' death.
  Although you have a certain amount of freedom, the game centres on a main quest - revenging your father's murder, finding your mother and sister - and various side quests.
  The central character is Vendice, intent on revenging the death of his mistress, poisoned by the lecherous old duke.
  His commitment to revenge the death of his people was struck short by his own death in the next measles epidemic, five years later.
  What was the use of revenging his death upon a man who was as much stricken by that death as I was?
  Pacorus, the son of Orodes, the King of Parthia, has been killed in order to revenge the death of Marcus Crassus.
  Nevertheless, the foothills of the mountains, where the Soga brothers once revenged their father's death, are now a resort area with winter skiing and other sport activities.
  His quest for justice begins in his ‘O eyes, no eyes’ soliloquy where he begs heaven to revenge his son's death.
  The leaders of the rival gang are looking over their shoulders for the Westies, who have yet to revenge the murder of Bernard Sugg, brother of Stephen, last August.
  Synonyms
  avenge, exact revenge for, take revenge for, make retaliation for, retaliate for, exact retribution for, take reprisals for, get redress for, get satisfaction for
2. 1.2revenge oneself" or "be revenged Inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself.
  复仇，报复
  I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you
  我一定要报复你们所有的人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Once started, this violence becomes cumulative, especially in a society where the dead must be revenged, and in the light of a failing State.
  But then, given their penchant for revenging themselves on their enemies by holding them down and nailing their knees to the floor, perhaps no-one wanted to give offence by bestowing on them the wrong sort of nickname.
  This is what traps them in their cage: None of them thinks about running away or revenging themselves upon the ‘normal’ members of society.
  Yes, it will follow, and may the wrongs which Irishmen have suffered be revenged both soon and sudden.
  Possessed by morbid drives that defy easy psychological analysis, they pursued a revolutionary domestic policy, not because they had any faith in its merits but in order to be revenged on their enemies and consolidate their power.
  Synonyms
  take revenge on, exact revenge on, wreak revenge on, get one's revenge on, avenge oneself on, take vengeance on, get even with, settle a score with, settle the score with, get, pay back, pay out, retaliate against, retaliate on, take reprisals against, exact retribution on, let someone see how it feels, give someone their just deserts, give someone a dose of their own medicine, give someone a taste of their own medicine, give as good as one gets

Phrases

revenge is a dish best served (or eaten) cold

proverb Vengeance is often more satisfying if it is not exacted immediately.
〈谚〉君子报仇，十年不晚
Example sentencesExamples
- If revenge is a dish best eaten cold, Clive Woodward was enjoying his morsel out of the deep freeze last night.
- If revenge is a dish best served cold, there's nowhere more chilled than the grave.
- If C. Montgomery Burns is right and revenge is a dish best served cold, this may be one of Jenkins' most delicious years ever.
- You know, He-Man, they say revenge is a dish best served cold, but I would much rather serve it hot.
- The factions have long memories and revenge is a dish best served cold.
- Eventually, after being distracted by an unnecessary subplot about goings-on in Vegas, Jack unravels the cover-up and starts proving that revenge is a dish best served cold.
- Whoever said that revenge is a dish best served cold didn't know what the hell they were talking about.
- If revenge is a dish best served cold, it was only appropriate that Arsenal's first goal came from Vieira.
- However, revenge is a dish best eaten cold, preferably not eaten at all, as it ranks as probably the nastiest emotion to which humanity is heir.
- If revenge is a dish best served cold, then how come the Nets were so damn hot against the Lakers?

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French revencher, from late Latin revindicare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vindicare ‘claim, avenge’.

词汇	revenge
释义	Definition of revenge in English: revenge noun rɪˈvɛn(d)ʒrəˈvɛndʒ mass noun 1The action of hurting or harming someone in return for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands. 复仇，报复 other spurned wives have taken public revenge on their husbands 其他被抛弃的妻子已公开向她们的丈夫报复。 Example sentencesExamples So, in revenge for the killing of four American mercenaries, a city was seized, bombed, and a massacre of hundreds of civilians took place. Sarah Monette is writing her doctoral thesis on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy. In both cases, death apparently feels as cheated as paying audiences and wants to exact a bloody revenge. But as time went by, and there was no news of the men, I decided they were unlikely to bother taking the trouble and risk of searching me out in revenge for a minor setback. Sometimes they get your name wrong in revenge for you never having been to their church except once, drunk, at Christmas. Doune leapt at him down the stairs his great sword high above his head and was ready to chop the mage in two in revenge for nearly killing Eltriuqs. But you know what you do: just remember that living well is the best revenge. Instead of taking revenge on his father's murderer, he joins his gang. Two charges of affray relating to incidents in February when he had been thrown out of clubs and returned for revenge saw him sentenced to 18 months to run consecutively, giving him a total ten years. Jay also has a real fascination with venereal disease, snorting cocaine and taking violent revenge on cheating women. Detectives will investigate whether the killing was in revenge for an assault allegedly carried out by Mr Curran on a young teenage girl on the northside. Steven McDonnell was insistent that there is no thoughts of a revenge mission next week. Sam soon discovers that what he writes comes true and decides to get sweet revenge on his tormentors. He's got an enormous fortune, and he vows revenge on the enemies of his father. They told the judge that they killed Qmeil in revenge for the killings of six members of their clan a decade ago. Their intent is to exact revenge for a death or wrongdoing that took place in the past. But in the tradition of revenge thrillers, they don't make absolutely sure that Frank is dead. When the kidnapping goes horribly wrong, everyone is left hurting and searching for revenge. He then returned to his neighborhood and gathered his friends for a revenge attack. Synonyms vengeance, retribution, retaliation, reprisal, requital, recrimination, an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth), tit for tat, measure for measure, getting even, redress, satisfaction, repayment, payback Latin lex talionis rare ultion 1.1 The desire to repay an injury or wrong. it was difficult not to be overwhelmed with feelings of hate and revenge 想不被仇恨和报复欲望所左右是不容易的。 Example sentencesExamples Many of the stories are motivated by revenge, he adds. The mother feels that he is motivated by revenge. No matter how hard you try to avoid collusion with the beast, eventually, you come to realize there's no way out of the cycle of revenge and desire. Whether through an act of revenge or a genuine desire to check on the inner workings of the organisation, he has requested to see the financial records of the PGA Tour. As revenge fantasies go, Alexandra's Project has almost nothing going for it. Try and think of a commercial of any sort that isn't based on greed, envy, fear, hatred, revenge, thrusting ambition, or sheer lust. Police believe the attack could have been motivated by revenge. Synonyms vengefulness, vindictiveness, vitriol, virulence, spite, spitefulness, malice, maliciousness, malevolence, malignancy, ill will, animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, acrimony, venom, poison, hate, hatred, rancour, bitterness literary revengefulness, maleficence 1.2 (in sporting contexts) the defeat of a person or team by whom one was beaten in a previous encounter. （体育用语）（上次败方的）雪耻 Zimbabwe snatched the game 18–16, but the Spanish had their revenge later 津巴布韦队以18比16拿下这场比赛，但西班牙在后面的比赛中一雪前耻。 Example sentencesExamples League runner-up Bhinneka Sritex will be looking for revenge after their finals defeat against Aspac. In the relay, the Americans got sweet revenge for a five-second defeat to the Aussies four years ago in Sydney, while Italy took bronze. One of his losses was to Akira Oguchi, on whom he gained his revenge when he knocked the Japanese boxer out in five rounds in Bangkok in September 1961. As White wryly remarks, the Irish have been talking about revenge since they lost in Bloemfontein and Cape Town and should not need to be motivated more than they already are. For Eriksson there is some hope of sporting revenge over the man whose Brazil side won the 2002 World Cup quarter-final meeting. They will be hell-bent on revenge after losing to Bradford on the final day of last season at Northcliffe. Who among us can wait for Owens' two games a year against the Eagles, to see if he can exact a measure of revenge on the team that made him pay? The Bombers took revenge in the rematch, 24-17, and went on to win the national title. This should be a cracking encounter with Enniscrone seeking revenge for last year's defeat by Calry in the quarter final of the competition. Will the team get its revenge in its new home this season? Bucks were outplayed by Silver Stars who took revenge for a previous defeat. Energized by hosting a Monday night game, the Eagles will exact some prime-time revenge against the team that routed them in Week 5. Bolton Woods A gained revenge for their home defeat by Bradford Tigers A in under-eight Group C of the Keybury League. Smith ached for revenge after a heartbreaking defeat his junior year. And Hartley knows they would love to gain revenge for September's back to back cup and league defeats against the Greens. Pintusevich-Block was out for revenge after narrowly losing to Jones in the 1997 final. Mugeyi capped his resurgent form with an acrobatic diving winning headed-goal in the 55th minute to earn his side sweet revenge against the Limpopo team. Keighley travel to Sheffield a week on Sunday looking for revenge for two defeats at the Don Valley Stadium last season. The effort also provided McCarty with revenge against the team made him a first-round pick in 1991 but gave up on him in 1995. Saracens returned to second team championship fixtures after a four week gap with a trip to Park Lane hoping to gain revenge for a narrow defeat at Cross Green earlier in the season. verb rɪˈvɛn(d)ʒrəˈvɛndʒ revenge oneself" or "be revengedliterary 1Inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself. 复仇，报复 I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you 我一定要报复你们所有的人。 Example sentencesExamples But then, given their penchant for revenging themselves on their enemies by holding them down and nailing their knees to the floor, perhaps no-one wanted to give offence by bestowing on them the wrong sort of nickname. This is what traps them in their cage: None of them thinks about running away or revenging themselves upon the ‘normal’ members of society. Yes, it will follow, and may the wrongs which Irishmen have suffered be revenged both soon and sudden. Once started, this violence becomes cumulative, especially in a society where the dead must be revenged, and in the light of a failing State. Possessed by morbid drives that defy easy psychological analysis, they pursued a revolutionary domestic policy, not because they had any faith in its merits but in order to be revenged on their enemies and consolidate their power. Synonyms take revenge on, exact/wreak revenge on, get one's revenge on, avenge oneself on, take vengeance on, get even with, settle a/the score with, get, pay back, pay out, retaliate on/against, take reprisals against, exact retribution on, let someone see how it feels, give someone their just deserts, give someone a dose/taste of their own medicine, give as good as one gets give/return like for like, give tit for tat, take an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) informal give someone their comeuppance British informal get one's own back on archaic recriminate rare give someone a Roland for an Oliver 1.1with object Inflict revenge on behalf of (someone else) 替（人）报仇 it's a pity he chose that way to revenge his sister 遗憾的是，他选择了那样的方式为妹妹报仇。 Example sentencesExamples In the original script, the bad guy was actually revenging the hero for something which happened in their childhood. He told me he was thinking of ‘going back to the mountains’, as they say, to join the paramilitaries and revenge his brother. The only difference was that we did it to do justice and revenge the innocent victims. Will no one revenge us of the injuries we have sustained from these turbulent priests? Be sure that sooner or later someone will try to revenge him. One in five of the pilots in the Battle of Britain came from overseas and, far from fighting for an Arcadian Britain, some were revenging the invasion of their homelands. She eventually comes to the decision that her children should be killed in order to revenge Jason for what he did to her. And when I do eventually get the chance to revenge Jenny, I'm not going to hide behind a gun. Stand in as pretend boyfriend when necessary - that includes revenging me to large scary looking men on dark nights. He acted to revenge the mother of his child and their son. His ill-treatment of her relatives is surely the quickest way to revenge her. Originally Hotta was among those who joined Kuranosuke Oishi in the plot to revenge their lord; however, in the end, he renounced his vow and took a new name. Of course tomorrow I would revenge her innocently. They wanted to revenge their father and they had secretly trained themselves for this moment. Looks like revenging her victims wasn't your only objective. You lived to revenge your father against Seth, who betrayed and slew him. ‘Finally I have revenged my family and country,’ I yelled. She has also asked him to not engage in any other activities till he revenges her against this giant. But it's even worse than for Hamlet, that Orestes has to revenge his father by killing his mother. She has to dress as a man to survive in the ruthless and self-centred world of the panners and fend off all kinds of unwanted, and hilarious, attentions as she bravely strives to get her man and revenge her family. 1.2 Inflict retribution for (a wrong or injury done to oneself or another) 报（被冤枉，被伤害）之仇；洗雪（侮辱） her brother was slain, and she revenged his death 她的哥哥被人杀害了，她报了杀兄之仇。 Example sentencesExamples His commitment to revenge the death of his people was struck short by his own death in the next measles epidemic, five years later. As they are about to take their leave, Don Quijote offers thanks to the innkeeper and offers to revenge any wrongs ever done to him. His primary motivation is to revenge the deaths of his fallen comrades. Pacorus, the son of Orodes, the King of Parthia, has been killed in order to revenge the death of Marcus Crassus. The central character is Vendice, intent on revenging the death of his mistress, poisoned by the lecherous old duke. You know they will revenge the death of one of their own. What was the use of revenging his death upon a man who was as much stricken by that death as I was? When they plan to send him to a military school, Ivan demands to be sent back to the front, seeking to revenge his parents' death. As far as Hamlet was concerned, revenging a death was the best reason for an assassination. Thus the recent run of Irish victories ended and last year's desperately disappointing draw gloriously revenged. I lay dead in front of you, and yet you do not even revenge my death. Nevertheless, the foothills of the mountains, where the Soga brothers once revenged their father's death, are now a resort area with winter skiing and other sport activities. The leaders of the rival gang are looking over their shoulders for the Westies, who have yet to revenge the murder of Bernard Sugg, brother of Stephen, last August. Although you have a certain amount of freedom, the game centres on a main quest - revenging your father's murder, finding your mother and sister - and various side quests. The truth eventually emerges: her father died in the communalist rioting of 1984, during which mobs killed thousands of Sikhs, claiming to be revenging the death of Indira Gandhi at the hands of her Sikh bodyguards. Seemingly possessed by his hands, he becomes a murderer, choking friends and foe alike, vaguely seeking to revenge the death of Meta's father. His quest for justice begins in his ‘O eyes, no eyes’ soliloquy where he begs heaven to revenge his son's death. I wish it were not so, but I have resolved to revenge my father's death, and it is you who have taken him from me! He is the wildly popular or beloved hero who revenges wrongs against the nation. Ryan held his brother for many moments before standing up to revenge his death. Synonyms avenge, take/exact revenge for, make retaliation for, retaliate for, exact retribution for, take reprisals for, get redress for, get satisfaction for requite Phrases revenge is a dish best served (or eaten) cold proverb Vengeance is often more satisfying if it is not exacted immediately. 〈谚〉君子报仇，十年不晚 Example sentencesExamples If revenge is a dish best eaten cold, Clive Woodward was enjoying his morsel out of the deep freeze last night. You know, He-Man, they say revenge is a dish best served cold, but I would much rather serve it hot. If revenge is a dish best served cold, it was only appropriate that Arsenal's first goal came from Vieira. Whoever said that revenge is a dish best served cold didn't know what the hell they were talking about. The factions have long memories and revenge is a dish best served cold. However, revenge is a dish best eaten cold, preferably not eaten at all, as it ranks as probably the nastiest emotion to which humanity is heir. Eventually, after being distracted by an unnecessary subplot about goings-on in Vegas, Jack unravels the cover-up and starts proving that revenge is a dish best served cold. If C. Montgomery Burns is right and revenge is a dish best served cold, this may be one of Jenkins' most delicious years ever. If revenge is a dish best served cold, there's nowhere more chilled than the grave. If revenge is a dish best served cold, then how come the Nets were so damn hot against the Lakers? Derivatives revenger noun rɪˈvɛn(d)ʒə archaic A person who exacts punishment or inflicts retribution for an injury or wrong. an obsessive and cruel revenger Example sentencesExamples What Hieronimo and Bellimperia, the revengers, need is a way to get close to the murderers, while holding weapons. Berry's a mystically empowered revenger who brings down an evil cosmetics company that has a sinister secret behind its new anti-aging products. The original Pan is shown in a chilling Saki story as a murderous revenger against female bossiness and practicality. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French revencher, from late Latin revindicare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vindicare 'claim, avenge'. ‘Revenge’, said the 17th-century courtier and scholar Francis Bacon, ‘is a kind of wild justice.’ The idea that wrongs can be most successfully avenged by someone who has taken the time to plan their response is formulated in the proverb first recorded in the late 19th century, revenge is a dish best eaten cold. The word is from Old French revencher, which was from Latin vindicare ‘to claim, avenge’—the root of vindicate (early 17th century) and avenge (Late Middle English). Rhymes avenge, henge, Stonehenge noun.1 phr. Definition of revenge in US English: revenge nounrəˈvɛndʒrəˈvenj 1The action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands. 复仇，报复 other spurned wives have taken public revenge on their husbands 其他被抛弃的妻子已公开向她们的丈夫报复。 Example sentencesExamples Doune leapt at him down the stairs his great sword high above his head and was ready to chop the mage in two in revenge for nearly killing Eltriuqs. Detectives will investigate whether the killing was in revenge for an assault allegedly carried out by Mr Curran on a young teenage girl on the northside. They told the judge that they killed Qmeil in revenge for the killings of six members of their clan a decade ago. Steven McDonnell was insistent that there is no thoughts of a revenge mission next week. So, in revenge for the killing of four American mercenaries, a city was seized, bombed, and a massacre of hundreds of civilians took place. In both cases, death apparently feels as cheated as paying audiences and wants to exact a bloody revenge. He then returned to his neighborhood and gathered his friends for a revenge attack. When the kidnapping goes horribly wrong, everyone is left hurting and searching for revenge. Sam soon discovers that what he writes comes true and decides to get sweet revenge on his tormentors. Two charges of affray relating to incidents in February when he had been thrown out of clubs and returned for revenge saw him sentenced to 18 months to run consecutively, giving him a total ten years. But in the tradition of revenge thrillers, they don't make absolutely sure that Frank is dead. Sarah Monette is writing her doctoral thesis on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy. Their intent is to exact revenge for a death or wrongdoing that took place in the past. But you know what you do: just remember that living well is the best revenge. Instead of taking revenge on his father's murderer, he joins his gang. Sometimes they get your name wrong in revenge for you never having been to their church except once, drunk, at Christmas. But as time went by, and there was no news of the men, I decided they were unlikely to bother taking the trouble and risk of searching me out in revenge for a minor setback. He's got an enormous fortune, and he vows revenge on the enemies of his father. Jay also has a real fascination with venereal disease, snorting cocaine and taking violent revenge on cheating women. Synonyms vengeance, retribution, retaliation, reprisal, requital, recrimination, an eye for an eye, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, tit for tat, measure for measure, getting even, redress, satisfaction, repayment, payback 1.1 The desire to inflict retribution. 报复欲望，复仇心 it was difficult not to be overwhelmed with feelings of hate and revenge 想不被仇恨和报复欲望所左右是不容易的。 Example sentencesExamples Try and think of a commercial of any sort that isn't based on greed, envy, fear, hatred, revenge, thrusting ambition, or sheer lust. Many of the stories are motivated by revenge, he adds. As revenge fantasies go, Alexandra's Project has almost nothing going for it. The mother feels that he is motivated by revenge. Police believe the attack could have been motivated by revenge. No matter how hard you try to avoid collusion with the beast, eventually, you come to realize there's no way out of the cycle of revenge and desire. Whether through an act of revenge or a genuine desire to check on the inner workings of the organisation, he has requested to see the financial records of the PGA Tour. Synonyms vengefulness, vindictiveness, vitriol, virulence, spite, spitefulness, malice, maliciousness, malevolence, malignancy, ill will, animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, acrimony, venom, poison, hate, hatred, rancour, bitterness 1.2 (in sports) the defeat of a person or team by whom one was beaten in a previous encounter. （体育用语）（上次败方的）雪耻 the Yankees wanted to get their revenge for losing to the Dodgers in the 1955 Series Example sentencesExamples Will the team get its revenge in its new home this season? One of his losses was to Akira Oguchi, on whom he gained his revenge when he knocked the Japanese boxer out in five rounds in Bangkok in September 1961. As White wryly remarks, the Irish have been talking about revenge since they lost in Bloemfontein and Cape Town and should not need to be motivated more than they already are. Pintusevich-Block was out for revenge after narrowly losing to Jones in the 1997 final. Mugeyi capped his resurgent form with an acrobatic diving winning headed-goal in the 55th minute to earn his side sweet revenge against the Limpopo team. Who among us can wait for Owens' two games a year against the Eagles, to see if he can exact a measure of revenge on the team that made him pay? Keighley travel to Sheffield a week on Sunday looking for revenge for two defeats at the Don Valley Stadium last season. For Eriksson there is some hope of sporting revenge over the man whose Brazil side won the 2002 World Cup quarter-final meeting. Saracens returned to second team championship fixtures after a four week gap with a trip to Park Lane hoping to gain revenge for a narrow defeat at Cross Green earlier in the season. In the relay, the Americans got sweet revenge for a five-second defeat to the Aussies four years ago in Sydney, while Italy took bronze. Energized by hosting a Monday night game, the Eagles will exact some prime-time revenge against the team that routed them in Week 5. Smith ached for revenge after a heartbreaking defeat his junior year. Bucks were outplayed by Silver Stars who took revenge for a previous defeat. Bolton Woods A gained revenge for their home defeat by Bradford Tigers A in under-eight Group C of the Keybury League. The effort also provided McCarty with revenge against the team made him a first-round pick in 1991 but gave up on him in 1995. League runner-up Bhinneka Sritex will be looking for revenge after their finals defeat against Aspac. They will be hell-bent on revenge after losing to Bradford on the final day of last season at Northcliffe. This should be a cracking encounter with Enniscrone seeking revenge for last year's defeat by Calry in the quarter final of the competition. And Hartley knows they would love to gain revenge for September's back to back cup and league defeats against the Greens. The Bombers took revenge in the rematch, 24-17, and went on to win the national title. verbrəˈvɛndʒrəˈvenj [with object]literary 1Inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to (someone else) 复仇，报复 it's a pity he chose that way to revenge his sister 遗憾的是，他选择了那样的方式为妹妹报仇。 Example sentencesExamples Stand in as pretend boyfriend when necessary - that includes revenging me to large scary looking men on dark nights. She eventually comes to the decision that her children should be killed in order to revenge Jason for what he did to her. But it's even worse than for Hamlet, that Orestes has to revenge his father by killing his mother. In the original script, the bad guy was actually revenging the hero for something which happened in their childhood. Will no one revenge us of the injuries we have sustained from these turbulent priests? You lived to revenge your father against Seth, who betrayed and slew him. And when I do eventually get the chance to revenge Jenny, I'm not going to hide behind a gun. He acted to revenge the mother of his child and their son. Looks like revenging her victims wasn't your only objective. Of course tomorrow I would revenge her innocently. His ill-treatment of her relatives is surely the quickest way to revenge her. She has also asked him to not engage in any other activities till he revenges her against this giant. Originally Hotta was among those who joined Kuranosuke Oishi in the plot to revenge their lord; however, in the end, he renounced his vow and took a new name. He told me he was thinking of ‘going back to the mountains’, as they say, to join the paramilitaries and revenge his brother. Be sure that sooner or later someone will try to revenge him. The only difference was that we did it to do justice and revenge the innocent victims. One in five of the pilots in the Battle of Britain came from overseas and, far from fighting for an Arcadian Britain, some were revenging the invasion of their homelands. ‘Finally I have revenged my family and country,’ I yelled. She has to dress as a man to survive in the ruthless and self-centred world of the panners and fend off all kinds of unwanted, and hilarious, attentions as she bravely strives to get her man and revenge her family. They wanted to revenge their father and they had secretly trained themselves for this moment. 1.1 Inflict hurt or harm on someone for (an injury or wrong done to oneself or another) 复仇，报复 her brother was slain, and she revenged his death 她的哥哥被人杀害了，她报了杀兄之仇。 Example sentencesExamples As they are about to take their leave, Don Quijote offers thanks to the innkeeper and offers to revenge any wrongs ever done to him. I lay dead in front of you, and yet you do not even revenge my death. I wish it were not so, but I have resolved to revenge my father's death, and it is you who have taken him from me! You know they will revenge the death of one of their own. As far as Hamlet was concerned, revenging a death was the best reason for an assassination. Ryan held his brother for many moments before standing up to revenge his death. Seemingly possessed by his hands, he becomes a murderer, choking friends and foe alike, vaguely seeking to revenge the death of Meta's father. Thus the recent run of Irish victories ended and last year's desperately disappointing draw gloriously revenged. The truth eventually emerges: her father died in the communalist rioting of 1984, during which mobs killed thousands of Sikhs, claiming to be revenging the death of Indira Gandhi at the hands of her Sikh bodyguards. His primary motivation is to revenge the deaths of his fallen comrades. He is the wildly popular or beloved hero who revenges wrongs against the nation. When they plan to send him to a military school, Ivan demands to be sent back to the front, seeking to revenge his parents' death. Although you have a certain amount of freedom, the game centres on a main quest - revenging your father's murder, finding your mother and sister - and various side quests. The central character is Vendice, intent on revenging the death of his mistress, poisoned by the lecherous old duke. His commitment to revenge the death of his people was struck short by his own death in the next measles epidemic, five years later. What was the use of revenging his death upon a man who was as much stricken by that death as I was? Pacorus, the son of Orodes, the King of Parthia, has been killed in order to revenge the death of Marcus Crassus. Nevertheless, the foothills of the mountains, where the Soga brothers once revenged their father's death, are now a resort area with winter skiing and other sport activities. His quest for justice begins in his ‘O eyes, no eyes’ soliloquy where he begs heaven to revenge his son's death. The leaders of the rival gang are looking over their shoulders for the Westies, who have yet to revenge the murder of Bernard Sugg, brother of Stephen, last August. Synonyms avenge, exact revenge for, take revenge for, make retaliation for, retaliate for, exact retribution for, take reprisals for, get redress for, get satisfaction for 1.2revenge oneself" or "be revenged Inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself. 复仇，报复 I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you 我一定要报复你们所有的人。 Example sentencesExamples Once started, this violence becomes cumulative, especially in a society where the dead must be revenged, and in the light of a failing State. But then, given their penchant for revenging themselves on their enemies by holding them down and nailing their knees to the floor, perhaps no-one wanted to give offence by bestowing on them the wrong sort of nickname. This is what traps them in their cage: None of them thinks about running away or revenging themselves upon the ‘normal’ members of society. Yes, it will follow, and may the wrongs which Irishmen have suffered be revenged both soon and sudden. Possessed by morbid drives that defy easy psychological analysis, they pursued a revolutionary domestic policy, not because they had any faith in its merits but in order to be revenged on their enemies and consolidate their power. Synonyms take revenge on, exact revenge on, wreak revenge on, get one's revenge on, avenge oneself on, take vengeance on, get even with, settle a score with, settle the score with, get, pay back, pay out, retaliate against, retaliate on, take reprisals against, exact retribution on, let someone see how it feels, give someone their just deserts, give someone a dose of their own medicine, give someone a taste of their own medicine, give as good as one gets Phrases revenge is a dish best served (or eaten) cold proverb Vengeance is often more satisfying if it is not exacted immediately. 〈谚〉君子报仇，十年不晚 Example sentencesExamples If revenge is a dish best eaten cold, Clive Woodward was enjoying his morsel out of the deep freeze last night. If revenge is a dish best served cold, there's nowhere more chilled than the grave. If C. Montgomery Burns is right and revenge is a dish best served cold, this may be one of Jenkins' most delicious years ever. You know, He-Man, they say revenge is a dish best served cold, but I would much rather serve it hot. The factions have long memories and revenge is a dish best served cold. Eventually, after being distracted by an unnecessary subplot about goings-on in Vegas, Jack unravels the cover-up and starts proving that revenge is a dish best served cold. Whoever said that revenge is a dish best served cold didn't know what the hell they were talking about. If revenge is a dish best served cold, it was only appropriate that Arsenal's first goal came from Vieira. However, revenge is a dish best eaten cold, preferably not eaten at all, as it ranks as probably the nastiest emotion to which humanity is heir. If revenge is a dish best served cold, then how come the Nets were so damn hot against the Lakers? Origin Late Middle English: from Old French revencher, from late Latin revindicare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vindicare ‘claim, avenge’. noun.1 phr.
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