to revenge is a form of:
Revenge
noun
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- (punishment or injury inflicted in return for what one has suffered; a desire to inflict this) ការសងសឹក, ការតប, ការតាម, ការសងវេរ
Example: Done in the spirit of revenge.
verb — past tense: revenged ; past participle: revenged ; present participle: revenging ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to inflict injury in return for, to avenge, to pay back) សងសឹក, តប, សងវេរ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
- 2.
- The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
verb — past tense: revenged ; past participle: revenged ; present participle: revenging ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To take vengeance; -- with
- 1.
- avenge, requite, retaliate, vindicate
- 2.
- reparation, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, vengeance, vindictiveness
- 1.
- forgive, pardon, pity, reconcile
- 2.
- mercy, pardon, reconciliation, remission, forgiveness