vengeance
Other forms: vengeances
If someone hurts you, you might be inspired to plan an act of vengeance: some type of payback in order to settle the score. Be careful, though, because you might inspire someone to take vengeance on you in return.
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. The phrase “with a vengeance” means to do something with a lot of intensity. Vengeance shares roots with the word revenge, and someone who wants revenge usually pursues it with a vengeance.
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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”synonyms: payback, retribution
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Add to your formidable vocabulary arsenal by learning these words inspired by "The Avengers" movies.
This adaptation of an Old English epic describes the feats of the warrior Beowulf, who arrives in the great hall of Heorot to defeat a bloodthirsty monster.
