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revenge

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verb

as in to avenge
to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for a man who took matters into his own hands and revenged the death of his brother

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Noun
The important thing is not to torment yourself with anger, hatred, fantasies of revenge, but to move instantly to acceptance. Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 For revenge, an armed posse stormed into the Serrano village — even though the Serranos were not involved in the fighting — and chased the inhabitants to Chimney Rock, near Lucerne Valley. Calmatters, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
Verb
What a leaker or whistleblower’s motivation is varies from altruism and transparency to revenge and ruin. Anne Marie Malecha, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023 Call it revenge inflation spending. Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2023 See all Example Sentences for revenge 

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“Revenge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revenge. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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