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  1. 1. : with great force or vehemence. undertook reform with a vengeance. 2. : to an extreme or excessive degree. the tourists are back—with a vengeance. Synonyms. payback. reprisal. requital. retaliation. retribution. revenge. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of vengeance in a Sentence.

  2. the punishing of someone for harming you or your friends or family, or the wish for such punishment to happen: The story features a woman who is evicted from her home and is seeking vengeance. As he cradled his daughter's lifeless body in his arms, he swore (to take) vengeance on her killers. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  3. 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: retaliation, requital. Antonyms: forgiveness. an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble: to take one's vengeance. the desire for revenge:

  4. the punishing of someone for harming you or your friends or family, or the wish for such punishment to happen: The story features a woman who is evicted from her home and is seeking vengeance. As he cradled his daughter's lifeless body in his arms, he swore (to take) vengeance on her killers. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  5. (informal) to a greater degree than is expected or usual. She set to work with a vengeance. After two days the infection came back with a vengeance. After a poor season last year, he’s back with a vengeance. See vengeance in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: vengeance.

  6. the act of doing something bad to someone who has done something bad to you, or the feeling of wanting to do this: an act of vengeance. with a vengeance. If something happens with a vengeance, it happens a lot or in a very strong way: The disease swept across the country with a vengeance.

  7. Definitions of vengeance. noun. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life. “ Vengeance is mine” “"For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield” “he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him”

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