| 单词 | revenge |
| 释义 | revenge (once / 213 pages) nv Someone seeking revenge is looking to retaliate for a wrong that has been done. Sometimes a word can be used as either a noun or a verb, without changing the spelling. That's the case with revenge. You can take revenge (noun) on someone who hurt you, or you can revenge (verb) the hurt, punishing the person who wronged you. While revenge may be sweet, it usually just leads to more revenge from the other side, and so on. While that makes a good Shakespeare play, it can get pretty wearing in real life. WORD FAMILYrevenge: revenged, revengeful, revenges, revenging+/revengeful: revengefully USAGE EXAMPLESTheories for the seeming slip ranged from carelessness to unfamiliarity with the English language to employee revenge. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) Clemson seems a bit louder, a bit edgier, with a taste for revenge. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) It’s incomprehensible — except as a parting shot of personal revenge on Benjamin Netanyahu. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1n action taken in return for an injury or offense Syn|Hypo|Hyper retaliation payback, retribution, vengeance the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life reprisala retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime getting even, paying back, return a reciprocal group action 2v take revenge for a perceived wrong Syn|Hypo|Hyper avenge, retaliate get back, get even take revenge or even out a score fix, get, pay back, pay offtake vengeance on or get even penalise, penalize, punish impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on |
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