Usually means: Inflict harm for past wrongs.
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  1. take (one's) revenge, take revenge: Merriam-Webster
  2. take revenge: Wiktionary

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  1. take revenge: Legal dictionary

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  1. take revenge: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take revenge)

▸ verb:  To avenge; to get back at.

Similar:
get back at, pay back, get back, requite, revenge, avenge, serve out, have someone to rights, wreak, vindicate, more...

Opposite:
forgive, pardon, absolve, reconcile

Phrases:
to take revenge, take revenge for a perceived wrong, more...

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Similar:
get back at, pay back, get back, requite, revenge, avenge, serve out, have someone to rights, wreak, vindicate, more...

Opposite:
forgive, pardon, absolve, reconcile

Phrases:
to take revenge, take revenge for a perceived wrong, more...



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