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UK
/ɹɪvˈɛndʒ/
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[ US /ɹiˈvɛndʒ/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈvɛndʒ/ ]
NOUN
- action taken in return for an injury or offense
VERB
-
take revenge for a perceived wrong
He wants to avenge the murder of his brother
How To Use revenge In A Sentence
- Revenge is a by-the-book sequel, crowbarring in all of the memorable features of the first movie, spicing them up with even more ludicrous ultra violence and adding a few new twists to the tale.
- Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
- Derry Rovers Youths gained sweet revenge over rivals Spink Celtic in this Shield match played in the Ben Mulhall Park on Sunday, April 7.
- Al – Gundubah (“one locust-man”) smites off the head of his mother’s servile murderer and cries, I have taken my blood-revenge upon this traitor slave’” (Lane, M.E. chaps. xx iii.) 128 This gathering all the persons upon the stage before the curtain drops is highly artistic and improbable. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- ‘Revenge and death,’ he muttered, trying to rouse anger to replace the sudden fear that coiled in his belly.
- acting as if nothing borne in mind is the best revenge.it's all for myself to live better.
- Sharp may have been the victim of a gangland revenge killing.
- Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
- ‘You took a pre-meditated, calculated and awful revenge,’ the judge told him.
- I just didn't understand that the ricochet is the second part you can't hide what you intend, it glows in the dark once you start the path of revenge there's no way to stop the more I try to hurt you the more it hurts me strange, it seems like a character mutation though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down Killing the Buddha