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(n)
Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.
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An act of retaliation.
The condition of being vindictive; a malevolent desire for revenge.
(adj)
Relating to or part of a retaliation.
Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
A return on investment.
Violent or otherwise punitive response to an act of harm or perceived injustice; a hitting back; revenge.
A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.
Something of value given in return for an act.
A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.
Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
(uncountable, formal) Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
Return in kind; recompense, repayment, reward.
A blow delivered in reply to a previous blow by somebody else, such as an opponent in a boxing match.
(military, sports) The tactic of counterattacking.
a reciprocal group action
A protracted and bitter violent feud between clans, families, factions, etc.; a vendetta.
An enemy, especially an archenemy.
The state or characteristic of being just or fair.
(v)
To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
(rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
The act by which somebody is avenged.
Vengeance taken in reaction to earlier vengeance.
Revenge or retaliation.
An act of revenge.
(uncountable) The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
A punishment imposed in retaliation for another punishment.
Any action in opposition to a previous action.
one who takes revenge on behalf of a killed person, as in a blood feud
(figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
(idiomatic) A punishment or reward that is considered to be what the recipient deserved.
(literally) A stroke which follows another
A betrayal in response to a previous betrayal.
A severe or violent censure or reproach.
The act of offending.
(idiomatic) Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person.
(idiomatic, usually preceded by a) Harsh treatment inflicted on one who previously inflicted similar or equivalent treatment on others.
An assault made in return for another; a counterattack.
(law) The cancellation of all or part of a judgment.
Violence in response to earlier violence.
An insult in response to a previous insult.
The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force
An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg, and sometimes causing an ulcer.
A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
An indication of potential or imminent danger.
Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
An accusation against an opponent in an argument in response to the opponent's accusations.
(figuratively) Any activity that revels in the misfortune of others, or taking advantage of others.
A curse cast in retaliation to another curse.
The act by which something is roasted.
Another jolt
A retaliation.
(rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a threat of retribution (especially of divine punishment) is made in response to wrongdoing.
(rhetoric) A closing of a speech intended to arouse negative emotion toward an accused or an opponent and the actions or proposal at issue.
A raid carried out in response to another raid.
(rare) A demolition meant to retaliate for another.
The act by which something is wreaked.
A killing carried out in response to another killing.
Rage.
Grievous damage or havoc.
The act of somebody lashing out.
(figurative) Something that will enrage another particular person.
Alternative form of magbote. [(historical) Compensation paid by someone who killed their relative.]
(historical) Compensation paid by someone who killed their relative.
An act or instance of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; an imprecation; an expression of utter detestation.
A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
A periorbital hematoma; a visible bruise surrounding a person's eye; an assault causing such a bruise; the eye involved.
The act of adding insult to injury.
A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos.
(idiomatic) The means of one's own punishment or downfall.
An act of ravaging.
Drying or roasting; especially an anaerobic heat treatment to make wood waterproof.
(colloquial) A furiously vengeful disposition.
A murder in response to another murder.
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
(idiomatic) A compensation for capturing or killing someone, especially a criminal.
A sharp reply given to someone.
Any action in an opposite direction
(crime) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
Unnecessary, unprovoked (usually brutal) violence; violent acts simply for the thrill and entertainment of it.
A course of violent, frenzied action.
Extreme anger.
a campaign of resistance; a counterattack
the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty
Something that will enrage another particular person.
That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage, booty.
An assassination carried out in response to another assassination.
ecstasy
An act of betrayal or treachery.
A backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups.