Revenge vs Reverse - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between revenge and reverse

is that revenge is to take revenge for (a particular harmful action), to avenge while reverse is to change totally; to alter to the opposite.

As nouns the difference between revenge and reverse

is that revenge is any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some perceived harm or injustice while reverse is the opposite of something.

As verbs the difference between revenge and reverse

is that revenge is to take one's revenge (on or upon) someone while reverse is to turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.

As an adjective reverse is

opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.

As an adverb reverse is

in a reverse way or direction; upside-down.

revenge

English

(wikipedia revenge)

Noun

(en-noun)

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.

*:“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 ”.

Synonyms

* payback, wreak * See also

Derived terms

* Montezuma's revenge * revengeful * revenge is a dish best served cold * revengement * revenger

Verb

(reflexive) To take one's revenge (on'' or ''upon ) someone.

* Shakespeare

Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, / Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.

To take for (a particular harmful action), to avenge.

* Ld. Berners

to revenge the death of our fathers

* Dryden

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.

(archaic) To take vengeance; to revenge itself.

* Shakespeare

A bird that will revenge upon you all.

Anagrams

reverse

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.

We ate the meal in reverse order, starting with dessert and ending with the starter.

The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.

Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.

He selected reverse gear.

(rail transport, of points) to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.

Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.

* Gower

He found the sea diverse / With many a windy storm reverse .

(botany) Reversed.

a reverse shell

Antonyms

* (rail transport) normal

Derived terms

* reverse discrimination

Adverb

(en adverb)

*, Bk.XVIII:

*:they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.

*1963 , Donal Serrell Thomas, Points of Contact :

*:The man was killed to feed his image fat / Within this pictured world that ran reverse , / Where miracles alone were ever plain.

Noun

(en noun)

The opposite of something.

We believed the Chinese weren't ready for us. In fact, the reverse was true.

The act of going backwards; a reversal.

* Lamb

By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.

A piece of misfortune; a setback.

* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 309:

In fact, though the Russians did not yet know it, the British had met with a reverse .

The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.

The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.

The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.

A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.

(Shakespeare)

(surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

Derived terms

* in reverse

Verb

(revers)

To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.

To turn something inside out or upside down.

* Sir W. Temple

A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.

To transpose the positions of two things.

To change totally; to alter to the opposite.

* Shakespeare

Reverse the doom of death.

* Sir Walter Scott

She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray.

(obsolete) To return, come back.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.4:

Bene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse ?

(obsolete) To turn away; to cause to depart.

* Spenser

And that old dame said many an idle verse, / Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse .

(obsolete) To cause to return; to recall.

* Spenser

And to his fresh remembrance did reverse / The ugly view of his deformed crimes.

(legal) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.

to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree

(ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.

(chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.

(rail transport) To place a set of points in the reverse position

(rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position

To overthrow; to subvert.

* Alexander Pope

These can divide, and these reverse , the state.

* Rogers

Custom reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.

Derived terms

* to reverse out * bootlegger reverse * reversal noun

Antonyms

* (rail transport) normalise / normalize (transitive and intransitive)

Anagrams

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