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  2. Revenge - Wikipedia

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    Revenge is a label that is ascribed based on perceivers’ attributions for the act. Revenge is an inference, regardless of whether the individuals making the inference are the harmdoers themselves, the injured parties, or outsiders. Because revenge is an inference, various individuals can disagree on whether the same action is revenge or not ...

  3. List of types of killing - Wikipedia

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    Mundicide – the genocide of an entire planet or similar celestial object. Various degrees of mundicide occur throughout the universe, caused by such things as supernovas, or in the realm of science-fiction; Dark forest hypothesis. An idea popularized by Chinese author, Cixin Liu

  4. Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face - Wikipedia

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    The expression has since become a blanket term for (often unwise) self-destructive actions motivated purely by anger or desire for revenge. For example, if a man was angered by his wife, he might burn down their house to punish her; however, burning down her house would also mean burning down his, along with all of their possessions.

  5. Retributive justice - Wikipedia

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    Retributive justice is a legal concept whereby the criminal offender receives punishment proportional or similar to the crime.As opposed to revenge, retribution—and thus retributive justice—is not personal, is directed only at wrongdoing, has inherent limits, involves no pleasure at the suffering of others (i.e., schadenfreude, sadism), and employs procedural standards.

  6. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).

  7. Motorcyclist's revenge backfired when kicking a car - AOL

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    One motorcyclist must've had it out for another vehicle... or the people inside. But man did his revenge backfire. Fox News says, "Talk about instant karma. Guy on a motorcycle drives by a car ...

  8. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  9. Revenge tragedy - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of revenge tragedies include The Jew of Malta (1589, Christopher Marlowe), Antonio’s Revenge (1600, John Marston), and The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois (1613, George Chapman). In his essay "Of Revenge", Francis Bacon wrote "This is certain, that a man studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and ...