Get Even

Definitions: Get Even

Get Even

Verb

1. Compensate; make the score equal.

2. Take revenge or even out a score; "I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Get Even

Crosswords: Get Even

I get even more scared when I see how scared you are and then I realize what it is, there's a man in back of this place, creating this fear. (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

I'll get even if I have to crawl back from the grave to do it! (Marked Woman; writing credit: Abem Finkel; Robert Rossen)

We have an old saying in Delta House: don't get mad, get even. (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney)

We never get even for the wrong we've done. (Ghosts of Mississippi; writing credit: Lewis Colick)

I Want to Get Even (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Malice Aforethought: How Lawyers Use Our Secret Rules to Get Rich, Get Sex, Get Even...and Get Awaywith It (reference)

• High-Tech Harassment: How to Get Even With Anyone Anytime (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "get even": get even with ♦ get even with smb.. Additional references.

Albanian

marr hakun (avenge, fix, get even with, pay back, pay off, revenge), hakmerrem (avenge oneself, get even with, requite, retaliate, revenge oneself). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قارعه (get even with), ‏تعادل مع (get even with), ‏إنتقم (get back, get even with, get one's own back, hit back, reprisal, requite, retaliate, revenge, strike back, take revenge, wreak, wreak vengeance), ‏رد له (get even with). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разплащам се с (get even with), оправям си сметките с (get even with). (various references)

Czech

vyrovnat si to s kým (get even with smb.), vyrovnat se s (get even with, put up with). (various references)

Finnish

kiusallani (to get even with ., to spite . .). (various references)

French

se venger (get back, get even with, get one's own back), s'aplanir (get even with), s'égaliser (get even with), distribuer plus également (get even with). (various references)

German

abrechnen (cash up, clear, count down, deduct, liquidate, settle, settle up, square up, take off, to deduct). (various references)

Greek 

ανταποδίδω τα ίσα με (get even with). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת� קם (avenge, take revenge, wreak vengeance). (various references)

Hungarian

elintézi a dolgát vkivel (to get even with sy), elégtételt vesz vkin (to get even with sy), bosszút áll vkin (have the scalp of sy, to avenge oneself on sy, to avenge upon sy, to be revenged on sy, to get even with sy, to revenge oneself on sy, to take a vengeance on sy, to take it out of sy, to take it out on sy, to visit upon sy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

思い知らせる (to get even with, to have a revenge on, to make someone realize). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもいしらせる (to get even with, to have a revenge on, to make someone realize). (various references)

Pig Latin

etgay evenay

Romanian

se rãzbuna (be even with smb., get equal with smb., get even with smb., pay off, repay, retaliate, revenge oneself on smb., serve out, take revenge for smth. on smb., take vengeance on, wreak), fi chit cu cineva (be even with smb., get even with smb.). (various references)

Russian 

свести счеты с (get even with), расквитаться (be quits, get even with). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osvetiti se (avenge oneself, avenge oneself on, get back, get even with, pay back, retaliate, revenge, revenge oneself, wreak). (various references)

Spanish

desquitarse de (get even with, get one's own back), desquitarse (get even with, retaliate). (various references)

Swedish

bli kvitt med (get even with). (various references)

Turkish

acısını çıkarmak (avenge, be revenged, compansate oneself for, get equal with smb., get even with, get one's own back, have one's revenge, pay back, pay off, pay out, reciprocate, requite, serve smb. out, take revenge for), öcünü almak (avenge, be revenged, get even with, get one's own back, pay out, revenge, revenge on, take one's revenge). (various references)

Turkmen 

hasaplaюmak (get even with, settle accounts), haklaюmak (get even with, settle accounts). (various references)

Ukranian 

розквитатися (acquit), звести рахунки. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: vegete.

-2 letters: event, genet, tenge, venge.

-3 letters: even, gene, gent, neve, teen, vent.

-4 letters: eng, eve, gee, gen, get, nee, net, tee, teg, ten, vee, veg, vet.

-5 letters: en, et, ne.

+3 letters: generative, vicegerent.

+4 letters: eigenvector, televiewing, vicegerents.

+5 letters: aggrievement, decongestive, degenerative, eigenvectors, inveiglement, negativeness, overexerting, overlengthen, regenerative, revegetating, revegetation, seronegative.

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