REVENGE  報仇報

DAMAGE someone who one BELIEVES has ACTED:committed WICKED ACTS AGAINST one OR AGAINST one's FRIENDS.
VENGEANCEAVENGEVENGEANCERETRIBUTIONRETALIATIONREPRISALREQUITALRECRIMINATIONAN EYE FOR AN EYE (AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH)REDRESSSATISFACTIONAVENGETAKE/EXACT REVENGE FOREXACT RETRIBUTION FORTAKE REPRISALS FORGET REDRESS FORGET SATISFACTION FOR
Hypernym
  • DAMAGECHANGE so as to CAUSE TO BECOME MORE BAD.
    • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2.
      • EVENTREALITY that ARISES in TIME.
        • REALITYEXIST and NOT ONLY BE IMAGINED....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for revenge is bào 報 (ant.* shè 赦 "let off").

2. Fù 復 (ant. miǎn 免 "let off") is occasionally used to refer to revenge in limited idiomatic contexts like fù chóu 復仇.

Modern Chinese Criteria
報仇 is the current modern word for revenge.

復仇 is a more literary current word for revenge.

冤結 (rare) is a literary word for revenge.

鞭尸 refers to symbolic revenge for something one is unable to avenge properly.

鞭尸三百

報仇雪恨

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    REVENGE

    vindicta is an act of justice, like avenging.

    ultio is revenge as an agt of anger.

    talio is an act of retaliation.

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    VINDICTA/ULTIO

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.1787

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 8.1

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

Words

報  bào OC: puuɡs MC: pɑu 26 Attributions

The standard word for revenge is bào 報 (ant.* shè 赦 "let off").

    Word relations
  • Contrast: 罰/PUNISH Fá 罰 refers to non-physical forms of punishment including typically fines. See FINE

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNavenge; take revenge for (an event often identified in ZUO by a place name where that event occurred); take revenge on
  • vtoNab{S}revenge the act described in S
  • vtoNN=patienttake revenge on
報讎  bào chóu OC: puuɡs ɡju MC: pɑu dʑɨu 6 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPabactrevenge
  • VPitake revenge
報惡  bào è OC: puuɡs qaaɡ MC: pɑu ʔɑk 4 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPabactrevenge
反  fǎn OC: panʔ MC: pi̯ɐn 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNavenge
復  fù OC: buɡ MC: buk 1 Attribution

Fù 復 (ant. miǎn 免 "let off") is occasionally used to refer to revenge in limited idiomatic contexts like fù chóu 復仇.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNtake revenge for (something)
校  jiào OC: kreews MC: kɣɛu 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • vt(oN)retaliate against a contextually determinate opponent
隨  suí MC: zjwe OC: sɢlol 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNtake revenge for
報仇  bào qiú OC: puuɡs ɡu MC: pɑu gɨu 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPiacttake revenge
從讎  cóng chóu OC: dzoŋ ɡju MC: dzi̯oŋ dʑɨu 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPiseek revenge
復讎  fù chóu OC: buɡ ɡju MC: buk dʑɨu 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPiseek revenge; take revenge
報怨  bào yuàn MC: pawH 'jwonH OC: puuɡs qonsCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPi.post-Vt Ntake revenge for NCH
償  cháng OC: djaŋ MC: dʑi̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNfigurativeto recompense, pay back in kind

Existing SW for

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