revenged

Settled the score

Revenged is the past tense of revenge, meaning to inflict harm in return for a wrong done to oneself or another: She revenged her father's murder.

The word appears more often in older or literary contexts; modern English typically uses "got revenge" or "avenged" instead: He finally revenged himself on his betrayers.

retribution

payback

Retaliation for wrongs

retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
reprisalPunitive action in return
retaliationPunitive response to injury

requital · counterstrike · counterattack · reciprocity · tit-for-tat · redress · settling scores · getting even · eye for an eye · vendetta

emotion

wrath

Fierce, punishing anger

furyIntense violent anger
rageIntense, violent anger
angerIntense hostile emotion

ire · resentment · spite · malice · grudge · bitterness · animosity · hostility · hatred · vindictiveness

justice

retribution

Punishment for wrongdoing

punishmentPenalty for an offense
penaltyPunishment for wrongdoing
consequencesResults of actions taken

verdict · sentence · reckoning · deserts · dues · adjudication · tribunal · prosecution · judgment · accountability

Opposites

retribution status

revengedunavenged

Without payback delivered

unpunished · unanswered · unsettled · unredressed · unresolved

response to wrongdoing

revengedforgiven

Granted mercy for wrongdoing

pardoned · excused · absolved · let go · reconciled

Phrases

take revengeReturn harm for harm
bitter revenge
sweet revengeGratifying retaliation
revenge is sweetRetaliation feels rewarding
revenge plotPlan to retaliate deliberately
revenge pornNon-consensual intimate imagery distribution

Family

revenge, revenges, revengeful, revenging, revengers, revengefulness, revenger

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG