Revenge vs Terminate - What's the difference?
revenge | terminate |
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
To end, especially in an incomplete state.
* J. S. Harford
To kill.
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
(label) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
As verbs the difference between revenge and terminate
is that revenge is (reflexive) to take one's revenge (on'' or ''upon ) someone while terminate is to end, especially in an incomplete state.As a noun revenge
is any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some perceived harm or injustice.As an adjective terminate is
terminated; limited; bounded; ended.revenge
English
(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.