revenge

[rɪˈvendʒ]

Definition:
1. Action taken in return for an injury or offense.
2. Take revenge for a perceived wrong.

Use 'revenge' in a sentence:

• 1. When you want to get revenge on a woman you don't kill her--bosh!
• 2. She vowed to be revenged on them all.
• 3. Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, and I will revenge you in this field.
• 4. His urge for revenge would never infect her.
• 5. I'm not out for revenge.
• 6. He is cogitating upon some means of revenge.
• 7. She took revenge on her ex-boyfriend by smashing up his home.
• 8. There are few things quite as sweet as revenge.
• 9. There was anger in his eyes and revenge in his heart.
• 10. He killed his kids to revenge himself on his wife.
• 11. But locals with long memories thought this was fair revenge for the injustice of 1961.
• 12. The bombing was in revenge for the assassination.
• 13. He'd got his revenge now, and in spades.
• 14. In most tribal societies the only means to deal with an act of violence is revenge.
• 15. The wolf was very angry, and called Sultan "an old rogue", and swore he would have his revenge.
• 16. He swore revenge on the man who had killed his father.
• 17. This story is actually about revenge.
• 18. The creature does the same to him in revenge.
• 19. He incited his fellow citizens to take their revenge.
• 20. He's intent upon revenge.
• 21. She had a burning desire to wreak revenge.
• 22. Thoughts of revenge kept running through his mind.
• 23. But in legal systems, the responsibility for revenge becomes depersonalized and diffused.
• 24. Dawson takes revenge on the man by knifing him to death.
• 25. They were meditating revenge.
• 26. He might 'a' found out he couldn't get his revenge, and be going right after that money.
• 27. The prince was later revenged on his father's killer.
• 28. Drop any revenge you have towards the other person.
• 29. What a mean revenge!
• 30. She uses the media to help her exact a terrible revenge.
• 31. The revenge was that I knew he was in prison and that I knew he would be hanged.
• 32. The arrests raised the spectre of revenge attacks.
• 33. They've had their revenge more or less.
• 34. He swore that he would get his revenge.
• 35. People should understand how thirsty for revenge they are.
• 36. The killings were said to have been in revenge for the murder of her lover.
• 37. The Sunday Mercury accused her of trying to revenge herself on her former lover.
• 38. Tain't robbery altogether--it's revenge!
• 39. The desire for revenge can be overpowering.
• 40. He exacted a terrible revenge for their treatment of him.
• 41. She is seeking revenge for the murder of her husband.
• 42. The crime had revenge stamped all over it.
• 43. The team wanted to get revenge for their defeat earlier in the season.
• 44. Since he came to live with me, we have been subject to a campaign of spite and revenge which makes Lady Sarah appear angelic by comparison.
• 45. Revenge leads to a self-perpetuating cycle of violence.
• 46. The paper accused her of trying to revenge herself on her former lover.
• 47. The attackers were said to be taking revenge on the 14-year-old, claiming he was a school bully.