To take vengeance or inflict retributive punishment for, to avenge or revenge (some wrong, harm, or injury).

transitive. To punish or take vengeance upon (an offence, misdeed).

transitive. To avenge (an injustice or injury); to redress or rectify (an injury, a wrong or mistaken action).

transitive. To avenge or revenge (a person, deed, etc.); to punish. Also const. on.

transitive. = wrack, v.1 1. Occasionally reflexive. Also figurative.

transitive. = avenge, v. 2.

transitive. To avenge; to give vent in action to (incensed feelings). Cf. awreak, v.

To take vengeance, inflict retributive punishment, exact satisfaction, or retaliate, on behalf of (an… transitive.

transitive. To avenge.

transitive. In various figurative uses. To make an offender ‘pay for’, to inflict vengeance for (an injury). Chiefly qualified by dear, dearly, or…

transitive. To inflict punishment or exact retribution in retaliation for (an injury, harm, wrong, etc., done to oneself or another).

transitive. To revenge, take retaliatory vengeance for.

= wreak, v. 6 7.

transitive. To avenge, repay (a wrong). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To avenge or revenge (a person, cause, wrong, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To avenge (an insult, wrong, etc.); to settle (a grudge). Chiefly in to pay off old scores and variants (cf. score, n. 11b).