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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. |
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To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or
malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously. |
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To take vengeance; -- with |
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The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning
of evil for evil. |
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The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to
one who has done us an injury. |