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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Revenge  \Re*venge"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Revenged},  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Revenging}.]  [OF.  revengier,  F.  revancher  pref.  re- 
  re-  +  OF  vengier  to  avenge,  revenge,  F.  venger,  L. 
  vindicare  See  {Vindicate},  {Vengerance},  and  cf 
  {Revindicate}.] 
  1.  To  inflict  harm  in  return  for  as  an  injury,  insult,  etc.; 
  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. 
 
  To  revenge  the  death  of  our  fathers.  --Ld.  Berners 
 
  The  gods  are  just  and  will  revenge  our  cause 
  --Dryden. 
 
  Come  Antony,  and  young  Octavius  come  Revenge 
  yourselves  alone  on  Cassius.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  inflict  injury  for  in  a  spiteful,  wrong  or  malignant 
  spirit;  to  wreak  vengeance  for  maliciously. 
 
  Syn:  To  avenge;  vindicate.  See  {Avenge}. 




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