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Meanings of revenge in English

Russian
месть
Portuguese
revanche
Spanish
venganza
Catalan
represàlia
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Action taken to respond to an insult, injury or other wrong by trying to harm its perpetrator.

        месть
        Portuguese
        vingar-se
        Spanish
        vengarse

        Take revenge for a perceived wrong.

              vingar-se

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                    Usage of revenge in English
                    1
                    Ten years roll by, and Butler's revenge-minded victim is ready for action.
                    Reuters
                    2
                    The sole business of Lovat was personal aggrandizement; revenge was his amusement.
                    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II.
                    3
                    Bitterly mourned the king in spite of the richness of his revenge.
                    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
                    4
                    This was in truth the revenge of the feudal system upon Pharaoh.
                    History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
                    5
                    They take revenge for our sensuality; they catch us in their nets.
                    The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
                    6
                    He turned away; grief was taking the place of indignation and revenge.
                    The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
                    7
                    The Ithacans bury the wooers, and sitting in council resolve on revenge.
                    The Odyssey of Homer
                    8
                    Swearing at his vanished chance of revenge, he opened it; it ran:
                    The Admirable Tinker / Child of the World
                    9
                    I won the game; I gave him his revenge, and won again.
                    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
                    10
                    By the death of the King of Hana the revenge was complete.
                    Hawaiian Folk Tales / A Collection of Native Legends
                    11
                    Beggar turned at the door and got in his lick of revenge.
                    The Wild Olive: A Novel
                    12
                    The terror of being found out had damped the spirit of revenge.
                    In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
                    13
                    The Indians declared this to be the revenge of the Great Spirit.
                    The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills; Or, The Missing Pilot of th...
                    14
                    Hatred and revenge are the wretched passions which boil in their minds.
                    Amelia — Volume 3
                    15
                    Jude was crashing the furniture to pieces in a frenzy of revenge.
                    Joyce of the North Woods
                    16
                    These kind of people have always the revenge in their own hands.
                    Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Province...
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                    Russian
                    месть
                    Revenge through the time
                    Revenge across language varieties
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                    Common
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                    Common
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