revenges
Settles old scores
Revenges is the plural of revenge—acts of retaliation for wrongs suffered.
The word appears in literary and dramatic contexts where multiple acts of vengeance unfold: The play's final act unleashes a cascade of revenges.
As a verb form, revenges means inflicts revenge: She revenges herself on those who wronged her family.
Prolonged retaliatory conflicts
- paybacksActs of retaliation
- reprisalsRetaliatory actions after offense
- retaliationsVengeful counteractions
- grudgesPersistent ill will
feuds · settling scores · eye for an eye · comeuppance · nemesis · just deserts · reckoning · karmic justice
Persistent, intrusive preoccupation
- bitternessSharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- resentmentPersistent bitter displeasure
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- rageIntense, violent anger
hatred · fixation · trauma · grievance · festering · toxic · cathartic · closure
Dramas with fatal endings
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- villainsEvil characters in narratives
- plotsSecret plans or storylines
- schemesCrafty organized plans
antagonists · betrayals · soliloquies · catharsis · downfall · machinations · conspiracies · melodrama
Murder to restore family reputation
- blood moneyPayment tied to death
- clan feudsProlonged conflicts between kinship groups
- family honorCollective reputation of relatives
- SicilianFrom Italy's largest island
Corsican · generational · tribal · dueling · ritual · shame · restoration · patriarchal
vendettas
Prolonged retaliatory conflicts
- paybacksActs of retaliation
- reprisalsRetaliatory actions after offense
- retaliationsVengeful counteractions
grudges · feuds · settling scores · eye for an eye · comeuppance · nemesis · just deserts · reckoning · karmic justice · blood feuds
obsession
Persistent, intrusive preoccupation
- bitternessSharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- resentmentPersistent bitter displeasure
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
rage · hatred · fixation · trauma · grievance · festering · toxic · cathartic · closure · healing
tragedies
Dramas with fatal endings
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- villainsEvil characters in narratives
- plotsSecret plans or storylines
schemes · antagonists · betrayals · soliloquies · catharsis · downfall · machinations · conspiracies · melodrama · theatrical
honor killings
Murder to restore family reputation
- blood moneyPayment tied to death
- clan feudsProlonged conflicts between kinship groups
- family honorCollective reputation of relatives
Sicilian · Corsican · generational · tribal · dueling · ritual · shame · restoration · patriarchal · ancestral
revengesforgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
pardons · absolution · clemency · mercy · amnesty
revengesblesses
Consecrates or sanctifies
helps · befriends · embraces · reconciliation · rewards
revengesforgives
Ceases to blame
accepts · releases · compassion · benevolence · magnanimity
- 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