vengeance
Definitions
- Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong
- Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
- Desire for revenge
- Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
- Desire for revenge.
- with a vengeance, a. with violent force and rage.
- The act of retaliating:counteraction, counterattack, counterblow, reciprocation, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, tit for tat.
- harm done in return for injury received; revenge. wraak إنْتِقام мъст vingança pomsta die Rache hævn εκδίκησηvenganza kättemaks انتقام kosto vengeanceנקמה प्रतिहिंसा osveta bosszú pembalasan hefnd vendetta 復讐 복수, 원수 kerštas atriebība balas dendam wraakhevnzemstavingança răzbunare месть pomsta maščevanje osveta hämnd การแก้แค้น intikam, öç 報仇, 報復 помста انتقام sự báo thù 报仇，复仇
- With great violence or force.
- To an extreme degree: December has turned cold with a vengeance.
- the act of or desire for taking revenge; retributive punishment
- with a vengeance (intensifier): the 70's have returned with a vengeance.
- infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like in return for an injury or other offense received; revenge.
- an opportunity for or an instance of this.
Equivalents
Examples
“All the gods have⟳ mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men.”
“My name⟳ is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have⟳ my vengeance, in this life or the next.”
“Penn: I don't want⟳ to invest⟳ in the conversation, not that I don't have⟳ it privately, about my feelings about what direct⟳ action should happen⟳ to a leader who does that, but if there is a God, there will be vengeance beyond all possible comprehension. Hannity: "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord", quoted in a very famous book.”
“Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […]”
“If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play⟳ “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance […]”
“Are they full of vengeance[?], because they say⟳ that people with vengeance in their hearts must dig⟳ two graves, one for their enemy and the other for themselves.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
See also
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