Reciprocate vs Avenge - What's the difference?
reciprocate | avenge |
To mutually give and take something; to interchange.
To give something in response.
To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
* Dryden
To counter, retort or retaliate.
To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
* Milton
(obsolete) To take vengeance.
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(archaic) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
* Bishop Hall
In transitive terms the difference between reciprocate and avenge
is that reciprocate is to give something in response while avenge is to take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.As a noun avenge is
a vengeance; a revenge.reciprocate
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Verb
(en-verb)- One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, / And draws and blows reciprocating air.
avenge
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Verb
- to avenge the murder of his brother
- Avenge , O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.
- Thou shalt not avenge , nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
- thy judgment in avenging thine enemies