to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer
take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother
To take vengeance; with The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil
If you revenge yourself on someone who has hurt you, you hurt them in return. The Sunday Mercury accused her of trying to revenge herself on her former lover the relatives of murdered villagers wanting to revenge the dead. = avenge. to punish someone who has done something to harm you or someone else revenge yourself on sb
Revenge involves hurting or punishing someone who has hurt or harmed you. The attackers were said to be taking revenge on the 14-year-old, claiming he was a school bully
To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously