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GETTING EVEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does getting even mean?
• GETTING EVEN (noun)
The noun GETTING EVEN has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GETTING EVEN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A reciprocal group action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
getting even; paying back; return
Context example:
in return we gave them as good as we got
Hypernyms ("getting even" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "getting even"):
payment; requital (an act of requiting; returning in kind)
retaliation; revenge (action taken in return for an injury or offense)
reciprocation (the act of making or doing something in return)
tit for tat (an equivalent given in return)
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