Another thesaurus moment.
May. 6th, 2005 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Revenge
vengeance, avengement, sweet revenge, vendetta, death-feud, eye for an eye, blood for blood, a Roland for an Oliver, retaliation, day of reckoning.
rancor, vindictiveness, implacability, malevolence, ruthlessness.
avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
revenge, avenge, take revente, have one's revenge, breathe revenge, breathe vengeance, wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger, give no quarter, have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a rod in pickle, pay off old scores.
keep the wound green, harbour revenge, harbour vindictive feeling, bear malice, rankle, rankle in the breast, have at one's mercy.
revenge, vengeful, vindictive, rancorous, pitiless, ruthless, rigorous, avenging, retaliative, unforgiving, unrelenting, inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable, relentless, remorseless.
rankling, immitigable.
revenge is sweet.
I so love this thesaurus. Who knew having a grudge to settle would be "having a crow to pluck"? So amazing.
Oh, and having a rod in pickle? I was thinking it might be referring to having a piece of metal in acid. Pickle is a light acid that eats away certain marks on metal, I believe, and what a potent image, keeping your weapon in acid, ready to deal your revenge...wow.
I think I'm going to try to post a thesaurus entry every week.
vengeance, avengement, sweet revenge, vendetta, death-feud, eye for an eye, blood for blood, a Roland for an Oliver, retaliation, day of reckoning.
rancor, vindictiveness, implacability, malevolence, ruthlessness.
avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
revenge, avenge, take revente, have one's revenge, breathe revenge, breathe vengeance, wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger, give no quarter, have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a rod in pickle, pay off old scores.
keep the wound green, harbour revenge, harbour vindictive feeling, bear malice, rankle, rankle in the breast, have at one's mercy.
revenge, vengeful, vindictive, rancorous, pitiless, ruthless, rigorous, avenging, retaliative, unforgiving, unrelenting, inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable, relentless, remorseless.
rankling, immitigable.
revenge is sweet.
I so love this thesaurus. Who knew having a grudge to settle would be "having a crow to pluck"? So amazing.
Oh, and having a rod in pickle? I was thinking it might be referring to having a piece of metal in acid. Pickle is a light acid that eats away certain marks on metal, I believe, and what a potent image, keeping your weapon in acid, ready to deal your revenge...wow.
I think I'm going to try to post a thesaurus entry every week.