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revenge

 
 
/rɪˈvendʒ/ noun [U]

Translation

something that you do to punish someone who has done something bad to you
öç, intikam, kan davası
He's made life very difficult for me but I'll get/take my revenge. He was shot in revenge for the murder.1040
(Definition of revenge noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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