Usually means: Repaying harm with equivalent retaliation.
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  1. getting even: Merriam-Webster
  2. getting even: Vocabulary.com
  3. getting even: Wiktionary
  4. getting even: Dictionary.com
  5. Getting Even (Allen book), Getting Even (Woody Allen), Getting Even (album), Getting Even (short story): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. getting even: Rhymezone
  7. getting even: FreeDictionary.org
  8. getting even: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. getting even: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. getting even: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Getting Even)

noun:  the first solo album by the American musician Greg Ginn, released in 1993 on Cruz Records.
noun:  (also known as Hostage: Dallas and Inferno USA) a 1986 American film directed by Dwight H. Little.
noun:  Woody Allen's first collection of humorous stories, essays, and one short play.
noun:  "Getting Even" is a fantasy short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
noun:  a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith.

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