venge

• avenge
• be out for blood
• castigate
• chasten
• chastise
• come back at
• compensate
• correct
• defend
• discipline
• even the score
• fight back
• fix
• get
• get back at
• get even
• give comeuppance
• hit back
• justify
• kick back
• make reprisal
• match
• pay back
• pay back in spades
• pay off
• payback
• penalize
• punish
• reciprocate
• recompense
• redress
• repay
• requite
• retaliate
• retort
• retribute
• return
• return the compliment
• revenge
• right
• score
• scourge
• settle up
• settle with
• square
• stick it to
• take an eye for an eye
• take satisfaction
• take vengeance
• turn the tables on
• vindicate

• absolve
• cheer
• comfort
• condone
• deny
• depart
• encourage
• excuse
• fail
• forgive
• leave
• lose
• pardon
• refuse
• remit
• request
• surrender
• sympathize
• take

• He swore to venge his brother's untimely death.
• The hero set out to venge the wrongful accusations made against his family.
• In ancient stories, gods often venge wrongs committed against them.
• The warrior vowed to venge the destruction of his village.
• She sought to venge the betrayal, not with violence, but with justice.

absolve

• acquit
• avenge
• bleach
• blink at
• clear
• condone
• discharge
• exculpate
• excuse
• exempt
• exonerate
• expiate
• forgive
• free
• go easy on
• launder
• let off
• let off easy
• let off the hook
• let up on
• liberate
• lifeboat
• loose
• pardon
• redeem
• redress
• release
• relieve
• remit
• revenge
• sanitize
• set free
• spare
• spring
• unburden
• vindicate
• whitewash
• wink at
• wipe it off
• wipe the slate clean
• write off

absolved

• acquitted
• avenged
• beat the rap
• blameless
• clean
• cleanhanded
• clear
• cleared
• condoned
• discharged
• dismissed
• ethical
• excepted
• excluded
• exculpated
• excused
• exonerated
• expiated
• faultless
• favored
• forgave
• free
• guiltless
• immaculate
• immune
• impeccable
• inculpable
• innocent
• irreproachable
• law-abiding
• let go
• let off
• liberated
• lily-white
• moral
• not liable
• not responsible
• not subject
• off the hook
• outside
• pardoned
• privileged
• pure
• redeemed
• redressed
• released
• remitted
• revenged
• righteous
• set apart
• sinless
• spared
• special
• stainless
• unblemished
• unbound
• unburdened
• uncensurable
• unchecked
• undefiled
• unrestrained
• unrestricted
• unshackled
• untarnished
• upright
• vindicated
• virtuous
• void of
• walked
• whitewashed

absolves

• acquits
• avenges
• clears
• condones
• discharges
• exculpates
• excuses
• exonerates
• expiates
• forgives
• liberates
• pardons
• redeems
• redresses
• releases
• remits
• revenges
• unburdens
• vindicates
• whitewashes

abusiveness

• abhorrence
• abomination
• abuse
• animosity
• antagonism
• antipathy
• autocracy
• aversion
• bile
• bitchery
• bitchiness
• bitterness
• brutality
• calamity
• cattiness
• coercion
• compulsion
• conquering
• contempt
• control
• cruelty
• despicableness
• despite
• despotism
• dictatorship
• disdain
• disgust
• distaste
• domination
• enmity
• execration
• force
• forcibleness
• grudge
• hardness
• harshness
• hate
• hatefulness
• hatred
• horror
• hostility
• ill will
• injury
• injustice
• invidiousness
• iron hand
• jaundice
• jealousy
• loathing
• malevolence
• malice
• maliciousness
• malignance
• malignancy
• malignity
• maltreatment
• martial law
• mean-spiritedness
• meanness
• nastiness
• overthrowing
• persecution
• pique
• rancor
• repugnance
• repulsion
• resentment
• revulsion
• scorn
• severity
• spite
• spitefulness
• spleen
• subduing
• subjection
• suffering
• torment
• tyranny
• vengefulness
• venom
• viciousness
• vindictiveness
• virulence
• vitriol

balancing

• acclimation
• acclimatization
• accommodating
• adjusting
• aid
• allegory
• alteration
• amendment
• amends
• analogizing
• analogy
• analysis
• analyzing
• arrangement
• assistance
• association
• atonement
• atoning
• backing down
• balanced
• bringing together
• change
• check
• checking
• clearing
• collating
• collation
• comparability
• compensating
• compensatory
• conciliation
• conformance
• connection
• consideration
• considering
• contrast
• controlling
• correcting
• correction
• correlation
• counterbalancing
• cure
• dallying
• dawdling
• debating
• deciding
• delaying
• deliberating
• deliberation
• democratizing
• determining
• directing
• directive
• discharging
• discrimination
• distinguishing
• dithering
• dividing
• ease
• equalizing
• equating
• equilibrating
• equipoising
• equivocating
• estimation
• evaluating
• evening
• examination
• example
• exemplification
• faltering
• feats
• fitting
• fixing
• footing
• gymnastics
• halting
• hanging back
• hawing
• hedging
• hemming
• hesitating
• homogenizing
• identification
• illustration
• improvement
• indemnity
• investigation
• judging
• justice
• juxtaposition
• leveling
• levelling
• likeness
• likening
• lingering
• liquidating
• measuring
• meeting
• mending
• metaphor
• modification
• normalizing
• observation
• offsetting
• opposition
• ordering
• organization
• organizing
• orientation
• oscillating
• paralleling
• pausing
• paying
• paying off
• paying up
• payment
• pondering
• ponying up
• procrastinating
• pussyfooting
• quittance
• quitting
• ratio
• readjustment
• recompense
• recompensing
• rectification
• redress
• reestablishment
• reflection
• reformation
• regularizing
• regulating
• regulation
• regulative
• rehabilitation
• reimbursing
• relating
• relation
• relief
• remedy
• remission
• remodeling
• renewal
• repair
• repairing
• reparation
• repaying
• report
• reprisal
• requital
• resemblance
• restitution
• retribution
• return
• review
• revision
• reward
• reworking
• satisfaction
• scrupling
• scrutiny
• segregation
• separation
• setting
• settling
• shaping
• shifting
• shilly-shallying
• similarity
• somersaults
• staggering
• standardization
• standardizing
• standing
• stunts
• survey
• swaying
• teetering
• testing
• thinking over
• tumbling
• turning
• vacillating
• vengeance
• verification
• view
• wabbling
• waffling
• waiting
• wavering
• weighing
• wobbling

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