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vengeance
[ven-juhns]
noun
infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge.
But have you the right to vengeance?
Synonyms: ,Antonyms:an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble.
to take one's vengeance.
the desire for revenge.
a man full of vengeance.
Obsolete.hurt; injury.
Obsolete.curse; imprecation.
vengeance
/ ˈɛԻəԲ /
noun
the act of or desire for taking revenge; retributive punishment
(intensifier)
the 70's have returned with a vengeance
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of vengeance1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of vengeance1
Idioms and Phrases
with a vengeance,
with force or violence.
greatly; extremely.
to an unreasonable, excessive, or surprising degree.
He attacked the job with a vengeance.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Boulter once again found herself under pressure in the opening game, wiping out three break points to secure the hold as problems on serve returned with a vengeance.
But I admit I was relieved when Jesse read her the riot act about how this mission of vengeance put so many people in danger, including and especially the woman Ellie claims to love.
In Season 2, Mazino’s character Jesse had to track his closest friends, who are on a quest for vengeance, into a war zone.
The administration is using it as a tool of vengeance because Harvard has had the temerity to resist the administration’s various edicts.
Right now she is the frontrunner, and few doubt that, if successful, she would use the power of the presidency to seek vengeance against the Marcos's.
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Vengeance is a desire for revenge—retaliation against or punishment of someone for some kind of harm that they caused or wrongdoing that they did (whether real or perceived).It can also be used as an even more intense synonym for revenge.Vengeance often involves deep anger and a perhaps obsessive desire to get even by inflicting similar harm to the person who initially harmed the person seeking revenge. When it means the same thing as revenge, vengeance is often planned out over a period of time.The related adjective vengeful is used to describe someone who is determined to seek vengeance or someone who is inclined to seek vengeance—someone who is vindictive.The phrase with a vengeance means with great violence or intensity, as in My allergies have come back with a vengeance—I’ve been sneezing all day. Example: The vengeance in your heart will eat away at you, which is like letting your enemy defeat you yet again.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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