Action taken in return for an injury or offense.

synonym: retaliation.

Roget 900: resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation; exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation.    pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart-swelling; rankling.    ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper; irascibility etc. 901; ill blood etc. (hate) 898; revenge etc. 919.    excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement [Fr.], angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums.    burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence etc. 173; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words.    scowl etc. 895; sulks etc. 901.1. [Cause of umbrage] affront, provocation, offense; indignity etc. (insult) 929; grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli [Lat.]; ill turn, outrage.    Furies, Eumenides.    buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles.    ... show more

Roget 919: revenge, revengement^†; vengeance; avengement^†, avengeance^†, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation etc. 718; day of reckoning.    rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence etc. 907; ruthlessness etc. 914.1. avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.    ... show more

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: repercussie, revanche, vergelding, vindicatie, wraak, wraakneming
Polish: zemsta, odwet, pomsta, rozrachunek, porachunek

Take revenge for a perceived wrong.

synonyms: avenge, retaliate.

Roget 919: revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger.    have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle.    keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast.    ... show more

Dutch: wraak nemen, vergelden, wreken