revenges
- 1Plural of revenge.
The play stages a series of bloody revenges across three generations.
Her quiet revenges came years after the original insult.
Note
A plural that counts what is usually left uncounted. As a noun, revenge normally names the impulse or the retaliation in the abstract, so revenges appears when separate acts of vengeance are being tallied, mostly in literary writing about feuds and tragedies. The same spelling is also the present tense of the verb, as in she revenges herself on her rivals, where the reflexive construction takes on or upon.
revenges is a form of revenge
revenge, noun: Personal, retaliatory action taken against a person, group, or institution for a real or perceived wrong. Full entry
- Forms
- revengerevenges plural
- Spelling
- revenge → revenges: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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