Converse of object

• vow: Her eldest son is sacrificed by Titus; she vows revenge.

• swear: Having followed her to the house Tommy swears revenge upon the pair.

• seek: Is the murderer really seeking revenge from beyond the grave?

• exact: He often vowed to himself that he would exact no ordinary revenge.

• want: My old self rose to the occasion: I wanted revenge!

Preposition: for

• defeat: In Netball the 1st team will be seeking revenge for the single point defeat at the hands of Sheffield Hallam.

• killing: It is believed that this was a planned assassination in revenge for the killing of Jack Harris.

• murder: While these could never be directly tied back to the government they were widely seen as the revenge for the murder of Neave.

Adjective modifier

• exact: Joan lets Lou in to see Reb in solitary to exact revenge for the attack on Joyce.

• murderous: What emerges is a tale of misspent fortunes and murderous revenge among the crumbling ruins of an old film set.

• sweet: Despite the loss, the Lancaster teams all enjoyed the trip away, and are looking forward to taking sweet revenge next May... .

• bloody: The recent Bosnian civil war saw bloody revenge by the Serbs on Croatia.

• terrible: Amidst the wreckage of a defeated army, in the storm lashed hills of the Portuguese frontier, Sharpe takes a terrible revenge.

• petty: Without Blair, Chirac will remain exposed to all sorts of petty revenge by American hawks.

Modifies a noun

• killing: The villagers kept their children away from him, so it looks as if this a revenge killing.

• tragedy: It is unclear how Simkin would limit the parameters of the revenge tragedy genre, if at all.

• fantasy: Author enters revenge fantasy, in which Postal Employe is sealed in plastic envelope and sent Priority Mail to the bottom of the sea.

• motif: The revenge motif appears to start when Thun and his girlfriend Jane think they have run over a young woman in their car.

• attack: Of course, " there was no evidence it was a revenge attack " according to a US army source.