Financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment).

The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life.

synonyms: retribution, vengeance.

Roget 718: retaliation, reprisal, retort, payback; counter-stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project; retribution, lex talionis [Lat.]; reciprocation etc. (reciprocity) 12.    tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous.    recrimination etc. (accusation) 938; revenge etc. 919; compensation etc. 30; reaction etc. (recoil) 277.    ... show more

Dutch: vendetta, vergelding, wraak