take (one's) revenge
idiom
: to hurt someone in return for being hurt by that person
He swore to take (his) revenge on his enemies.
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Related article Iran mulls scrapping plans to take revenge on Israel in exchange for a Gaza ceasefire
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in that incident.
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Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 11 Aug. 2024
Both Iran and its Lebanese proxy group, Hezbollah, have vowed to take revenge against Israel for two assassinations carried out in Beirut and Tehran last week, which killed Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, respectively.
—Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2024
Sweeney Todd is a barber who slits his customer's throats (then allows them to be baked into meat pies by his downstairs neighbor, Helena Bonham Carter's Mrs. Lovett), aiming to take revenge on the corrupt judge who had him wrongly imprisoned and is responsible for the death of Todd's wife.
—EW.com, 31 May 2024
In a bid to find the driver and take revenge, Dutch embarks on a strange psychic training course designed to unlock his latent mind powers.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 July 2024
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Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 11 Aug. 2024
Both Iran and its Lebanese proxy group, Hezbollah, have vowed to take revenge against Israel for two assassinations carried out in Beirut and Tehran last week, which killed Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, respectively.
—Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2024
Sweeney Todd is a barber who slits his customer's throats (then allows them to be baked into meat pies by his downstairs neighbor, Helena Bonham Carter's Mrs. Lovett), aiming to take revenge on the corrupt judge who had him wrongly imprisoned and is responsible for the death of Todd's wife.
—EW.com, 31 May 2024
In a bid to find the driver and take revenge, Dutch embarks on a strange psychic training course designed to unlock his latent mind powers.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 July 2024
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