revengeとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɛndʒ/
• ハイフネーション: re‧venge

名詞

revenge (usually uncountable, 複数形 revenges)

1. Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.

   Synonyms: payback, wreak; see also Thesaurus:revenge

   Indifference is the sweetest revenge.

   When I left my wife, she tried to set fire to the house in revenge.

2. A win by a previous loser.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

派生語

動詞

revenge (三人称単数 現在形 revenges, 現在分詞 revenging, 過去形および過去分詞形 revenged)

1. (transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.

   Arsenal revenged their loss to Manchester United last time with a 5–0 drubbing this time.

   • 1697, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in Virgil; John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.

   • 1814, Lord Berners, The Ancient Chronicles of Sir John Froissart

     to revenge the death of our fathers

   • circa 1840, Leigh Hunt, The Seer; Or, Common-places Refreshed

     However, my veneration for that illustrious man was so great, that on the night when he died, I revenged him finely on his two principal enemies.

2. (transitive, reflexive) To take one's revenge (on または upon someone).
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
     Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.

3. (intransitive, archaic) To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
   • c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv]:

     a bird that will revenge upon you all

   • 1814, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III (Paradise), London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 559008226, lines 45–47, page 30:

     Count it not hard henceforth, when thou dost hear
     That a just vengeance was by righteous court
     Justly reveng'd. […]