Usually means: Repaying harm with retaliatory justice.
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Similar:
retribution, countervengeance, requital, retaliation, revanche, vendetta, reprisal, wrath, revenge, getback, more...

Opposite:
forgiveness, mercy, pardon, reconciliation, clemency

Types:
eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life, a pound of flesh, a drop of blood, more...

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Adjectives:
divine, terrible, private, personal, exact, bloody, just, cruel, signal, public, popular

Crossword clues:
blood debt,   need for revenge,   feeling of revenge,   want for revenge,   hell hath no fury

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