Classes Sentient and Moral Powers Sympathetic Affections Retrospective Sympathetic Affections Revenge
Revenge
Nouns
revenge, revengement
vengeance
avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation etc. Retaliation
day of reckoning. rancor, vindictiveness, implacability
malevolence etc. Malevolence
ruthlessness etc. Existence 4-pity">Pity.1. avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
Verbs
revenge, avenge
vindicate
take one's revenge, have one's revenge
breathe revenge, breathe vengeance
wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger. have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle. keep the wound green
harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling
bear malice
rankle, rankle in the breast.
Adjectives
revengeful, vengeful
vindictive, rancorous
pitiless etc. Existence 4-pity">Pity.1
ruthless, rigorous, avenging. unforgiving, unrelenting
inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable
relentless
rankling
immitigable.
Phrases
in high vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]
malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]
now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant of Venice] .