a. [ Cf. AS. ellende foreign, strange, G. elend miserable. ] Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Loneliness; misery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Revenged p. pr. & vb. n. Revenging ] [ OF. revengier, F. revancher; pref. re- re- + OF. vengier to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L. vindicare. See Vindicate, Vengerance, and cf. Revindicate. ] 1. To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To revenge the death of our fathers. Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To avenge; vindicate. See Avenge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Revenge now goes
To lay a complot to betray thy foes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Kames. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take vengeance; -- with upon. [ Obs. ] “A bird that will revenge upon you all.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Vengeance; revenge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. [ 1913 Webster ]

If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

May my hands . . .
Never brandish more revengeful steel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*venge"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*venge"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unrevenged. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Revenge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who revenges. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]