Definition of "take revenge" []

• To avenge; to get back at. (verb)

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• "In Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast told in the Vernacular by Charles C. Jones Jr., Chanticleer the rooster works with the fox to take revenge on a yellow rooster."
• "More worrying was the suspicion that they attracted from the authorities, as there were numerous rumours that the Templars had a secret plan to take revenge on the French monarchy and the papacy for the suppression of their Order and the execution of Jacques de Molay."
• "Jezebels and Athaliahs, no matter how pathetic and appealing they could seem when at one's mercy, would always rise to fight and take revenge unless they were utterly destroyed."