revenge
[rɪˈvendʒ]
Definition:
1. Action taken in return for an injury or offense.
2. Take revenge for a perceived wrong.
'revenge' example sentence:
- When you want to get revenge on a woman you don't kill her--bosh!
- She vowed to be revenged on them all.
- Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, and I will revenge you in this field.
- His urge for revenge would never infect her.
- I'm not out for revenge.
- He is cogitating upon some means of revenge.
- She took revenge on her ex-boyfriend by smashing up his home.
- There are few things quite as sweet as revenge.
- There was anger in his eyes and revenge in his heart.
- He killed his kids to revenge himself on his wife.
- But locals with long memories thought this was fair revenge for the injustice of 1961.
- The bombing was in revenge for the assassination.
- He'd got his revenge now, and in spades.
- In most tribal societies the only means to deal with an act of violence is revenge.
- The wolf was very angry, and called Sultan "an old rogue", and swore he would have his revenge.
- He swore revenge on the man who had killed his father.
- This story is actually about revenge.
- The creature does the same to him in revenge.
- He incited his fellow citizens to take their revenge.
- He's intent upon revenge.
- She had a burning desire to wreak revenge.
- Thoughts of revenge kept running through his mind.
- But in legal systems, the responsibility for revenge becomes depersonalized and diffused.
- Dawson takes revenge on the man by knifing him to death.
- They were meditating revenge.
- He might 'a' found out he couldn't get his revenge, and be going right after that money.
- The prince was later revenged on his father's killer.
- Drop any revenge you have towards the other person.
- What a mean revenge!
- She uses the media to help her exact a terrible revenge.
- The revenge was that I knew he was in prison and that I knew he would be hanged.
- The arrests raised the spectre of revenge attacks.
- They've had their revenge more or less.
- He swore that he would get his revenge.
- People should understand how thirsty for revenge they are.
- The killings were said to have been in revenge for the murder of her lover.
- The Sunday Mercury accused her of trying to revenge herself on her former lover.
- Tain't robbery altogether--it's revenge!
- The desire for revenge can be overpowering.
- He exacted a terrible revenge for their treatment of him.
- She is seeking revenge for the murder of her husband.
- The crime had revenge stamped all over it.
- The team wanted to get revenge for their defeat earlier in the season.
- 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.
- Revenge leads to a self-perpetuating cycle of violence.
- The paper accused her of trying to revenge herself on her former lover.
- The attackers were said to be taking revenge on the 14-year-old, claiming he was a school bully.