(v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult,
etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; --
followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing
wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object,
and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
(v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or
malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
(v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with
(n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning
of evil for evil.
(n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to
one who has done us an injury.
