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Meaning of revenge in English
(Definition of revenge from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of revenge
revenge
If it is peace you want, these actions will produce martyrs' crowns and revenges of a more horrible nature at some distant date.
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Therefore, they have revenged themselves in according them appreciably worse economic treatment than they have meted out to other countries.
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The whirligig of time brings its revenges, and every change in government means the same thing.
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I hope that the old feeling of a desire to be revenged upon those who have offended against society is fast disappearing.
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The last thing we ought to go in for is revenges, raising more dust and more scandal, and exhausting energy which ought to be reserved for the enemy.
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The whirligig of time brings its revenges.
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They also sent reverberations through the officer corps and the soldiery, damaging confidence among some and legitimizing the desire for revenge among others.
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In such situations a comic character's sanctimonious pose seems clumsy and inappropriate, the expressions of rage and revenge hollow.
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The theatre explores the secular dilemmas through themes of loyalty and revenge, love and fidelity, individual ambition and public order.
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I cannot here address civil disobedience or revenge.
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He forsakes the long-postponed pleasures of the marriage bed for the sweeter pleasure of revenge.
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There he found her sister was dead and revenged everyone who caused her death.
In turn, revenge is inaugurated following a scene of confession.
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I don't know what hidden anger you're taking revenge for.
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Acts of collective revenge continued to be endemic in the three subprefectures.
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बदला…
復讐, 仕返し, 報復…
öç, intikam, kan davası…
vengeance [feminine], vengeance, pour se venger de…
venjança…
wraak, wraak nemen op, zich wreken op…
ஒருவருக்கு செய்த தீங்கு அவர்கள் வேறொருவருக்கு செய்த தீங்குக்கான தண்டனையாக…
प्रतिशोध लेना / बदला लेना…
બદલો લો…
hævn, hævntørst, hævne…
hämnd, hämndlystnad, hämnas på…
membalas kejahatan, keinginan untuk merosakkan, membalas dendam…
die Rache, die Rachsucht, sich rächen…
hevn [masculine], hevn, hevnlyst…
بدلہ, انتقام…
помста, відплата, мстити…
месть…
ప్రతీకారం/ వేరెవరికైనా హాని చేసినందుకు శిక్షగా ఎవరికైనా హాని చేయడం…
اِنْتِقام…
প্রতিশোধ…
pomsta, pomstít (se)…
pembalasan, keinginan membalas, membalas…
การแก้แค้น, ความพยาบาท, แก้แค้น…
sự trả thù, mối thù hằn, trả thù…
zemsta, zemścić się, pomścić…
복수…
vendetta, vendicarsi (di)…
