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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
revenge/rɪˈvenʤ/

▶noun retaliation for an injury or wrong.

■ the desire to repay an injury or wrong.

▶verb (revenge oneself or be revenged) chiefly literary inflict revenge for an injury or wrong done to oneself.

■ inflict revenge on behalf of (someone else).

■ inflict revenge for (a wrong or injury).

– derivatives
revenger noun (literary).

– origin ME: from OFr. revencher, from late L. revindicare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vindicare ‘claim, avenge’.

'revenge' also found in these Oxford entries:

Electra complex - exact - get - Montezuma's revenge - pay - payback - revanchism - revengeful - score - vindictive

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