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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:

1. a reciprocal group actionplay

  Familiarity information: GETTING EVEN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GETTING EVEN (noun)


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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