settle an account
to harm someone because they have harmed you in the past:
Police think that the killings may be a result of accounts being settled between local gangs.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revenge and vengefulness
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- avenge
- bite
- bite back (at sb/sth)
- don't get mad, get even idiom
- even
- hit
- mind
- own
- pay
- pay sb back
- payback
- reprisal
- retaliate
- retaliatory
- revenge
- two can play at that game idiom
- vengeance
- vengeful
- vindictive
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