Punish vs Revenge - What's the difference?
punish | revenge |
To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow )
To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness.
Any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some perceived harm or injustice.
(label) A win by the previous loser.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge ”.
(reflexive) To take one's revenge (on'' or ''upon ) someone.
* Shakespeare
To take for (a particular harmful action), to avenge.
* Ld. Berners
* Dryden
(archaic) To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between punish and revenge
is that punish is to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action while revenge is (reflexive) to take one's revenge (on'' or ''upon ) someone.As a noun revenge is
any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some perceived harm or injustice.punish
English
Verb
(es)Synonyms
* (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct ) castigateDerived terms
* punishable * punisher (noun ) * punishment (noun ) * (l) and (l) (through portmanteau with (etyl) )External links
* *Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsrevenge
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(wikipedia revenge)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* payback, wreak * See alsoDerived terms
* Montezuma's revenge * revengeful * revenge is a dish best served cold * revengement * revengerSee also
* vendetta * avenge * vengeance * get one's own back * get back at somebody * retaliateVerb
- Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, / Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.
- to revenge the death of our fathers
- The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
- Arsenal revenged its loss to Manchester United last time with a 5-0 drubbing this time.
- A bird that will revenge upon you all.