The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil, The desire to be revenged; the emotion which is aroused by an injury or affront, and which leads to retaliation; vindictiveness of mind, An opportunity to retaliate, as by a return sports match after a defeat, verb_ take revenge for a perceived wrong, transitive verb_ To inflict punishment in return for (injury or insult), Archaic To seek or take vengeance for (oneself or another person); avenge, To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously, intransitive verb_ obsolete, obsolete To take vengeance; -- with

Characterized by accurate measurements or inferences with small margins of error; not approximate, Characterized by strict adherence to standards or rules, marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact, verb_ claim as due or just, take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs, transitive verb_ To force the payment or yielding of; extort, To inflict (vengeance or punishment, for example), intransitive verb_ rare To practice exaction,