revenge yourself on
phrasal verbrevenge yourself on somebody | be revenged on somebody
- (literary) to punish or hurt somebody because they have made you suffer
- She vowed to be revenged on them all.
- Macduff declares his intention to revenge himself on Macbeth.
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