{
    "term": "revenge",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "something that you do in order to make somebody suffer because they have made you suffer",
            "sensetop": "revenge for somethingin revenge for somethingrevenge on somebody/something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She is **seeking revenge for** the murder of her husband.",
                    "contextForm": "revenge for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bombing was an act of revenge for the shooting of two young boys."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bombing was in revenge for the assassination.",
                    "contextForm": "in revenge for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He swore to **take (his) revenge on** his political enemies.",
                    "contextForm": "revenge on somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**revenge attacks/killings**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He vowed to take his revenge on the man who had killed his brother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Revenge is sweet, so they say."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She desperately wanted to take revenge on her attacker."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The accusations were driven by a desire for revenge."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The attack was in revenge for the deaths of two loyalist prisoners."
                },
                {
                    "text": "revenge for the insult"
                },
                {
                    "text": "taking revenge on her attacker"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His death set off a series of revenge killings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were television appeals that acts of revenge should cease."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["sweet"],
                "verb + revenge": ["seek", "want", "plot"],
                "revenge + noun": ["attack", "killing", "fantasy"],
                "preposition": ["in revenge", "revenge for", "revenge on"],
                "phrases": ["an act of revenge", "a desire for revenge"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the defeat of a person or team that defeated you in a previous game",
            "sensetop": "revenge (for something)",
            "labels": "(sport)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The team wanted to get revenge for their defeat earlier in the season."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This was sweet revenge for our defeat earlier in the season."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["sweet"],
                "verb + revenge": ["seek", "want", "plot"],
                "revenge + noun": ["attack", "killing", "fantasy"],
                "preposition": ["in revenge", "revenge for", "revenge on"],
                "phrases": ["an act of revenge", "a desire for revenge"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvendʒ/",
                "audio": "re/revenge/revenge__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvendʒ/",
                "audio": "re/revenge/revenge__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French revencher, from late Latin revindicare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + vindicare ‘claim, avenge’."
}