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    Venge·ance
    /ˈvenjəns/

    noun

    • 1. punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong: "voters are ready to wreak vengeance on all politicians"
  2. The meaning of VENGEANCE is punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense : retribution. How to use vengeance in a sentence.

  3. Vengeance definition: infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge. See examples of VENGEANCE used in a sentence.

  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. 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.

  6. Vengeance is a downward spiral of pain and betrayal, one person hurting another, who hurts another, and so on. You might demand vengeance if your brother throws your favorite jeans into a tree, and your brother might feel the same way after you spit gum in his hair.

  7. n. 1. infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like in return for an injury or other offense received; revenge. 2. an opportunity for or an instance of this. 3. the desire for revenge: to be full of vengeance. Idioms: with a vengeance, a. with violent force and rage.

  8. Vengeance is the act of killing, injuring, or harming someone because they have harmed you.

  9. the act of punishing or harming somebody in return for what they have done to you, your family or friends synonym revenge. a desire for vengeance. vengeance on/upon somebody to take vengeance on somebody. She is determined to wreak vengeance on those who killed her cousin. He swore vengeance on his child's killer.

  10. 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.

  11. Vengeance definition: Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.

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