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{
"term": "revenge",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "something that you do in order to make somebody suffer because they have made you suffer",
"sensetop": "revenge for somethingin revenge for somethingrevenge on somebody/something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She is **seeking revenge for** the murder of her husband.",
"contextForm": "revenge for something"
},
{
"text": "The bombing was an act of revenge for the shooting of two young boys."
},
{
"text": "The bombing was in revenge for the assassination.",
"contextForm": "in revenge for something"
},
{
"text": "He swore to **take (his) revenge on** his political enemies.",
"contextForm": "revenge on somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "**revenge attacks/killings**"
},
{
"text": "He vowed to take his revenge on the man who had killed his brother."
},
{
"text": "Revenge is sweet, so they say."
},
{
"text": "She desperately wanted to take revenge on her attacker."
},
{
"text": "The accusations were driven by a desire for revenge."
},
{
"text": "The attack was in revenge for the deaths of two loyalist prisoners."
},
{
"text": "revenge for the insult"
},
{
"text": "taking revenge on her attacker"
},
{
"text": "His death set off a series of revenge killings."
},
{
"text": "There were television appeals that acts of revenge should cease."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["sweet"],
"verb + revenge": ["seek", "want", "plot"],
"revenge + noun": ["attack", "killing", "fantasy"],
"preposition": ["in revenge", "revenge for", "revenge on"],
"phrases": ["an act of revenge", "a desire for revenge"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the defeat of a person or team that defeated you in a previous game",
"sensetop": "revenge (for something)",
"labels": "(sport)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The team wanted to get revenge for their defeat earlier in the season."
},
{
"text": "This was sweet revenge for our defeat earlier in the season."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["sweet"],
"verb + revenge": ["seek", "want", "plot"],
"revenge + noun": ["attack", "killing", "fantasy"],
"preposition": ["in revenge", "revenge for", "revenge on"],
"phrases": ["an act of revenge", "a desire for revenge"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvendʒ/",
"audio": "re/revenge/revenge__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvendʒ/",
"audio": "re/revenge/revenge__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French revencher, from late Latin revindicare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vindicare ‘claim, avenge’."
}