venge
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of venge
1250–1300; Middle English vengen < Old French veng ( i ) er < Latin vindicāre; vindicate
Example Sentences
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Novelist Roald Dahl has adapted his short story William and Mary, about the eerie re venge of a browbeaten wife, as the first offering in a new series intended to exploit eccentric stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next year she took her re venge in Fort Lauderdale by humiliating King 6-1, 6-0.
From Time Magazine Archive
For thou hast carried with thee to the grave The only hope that in my heart yet lived, The hope that thou wouldst some day come to venge Thy sire and me.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin
Ah! shades of Yarrell, Morris, Bewick, Wood, Swoop down from Nephelococcygian eyrie With legions of bird-phantoms, Roc-ghosts and spectral bantams, And venge the Vandal sporting-man's vagary, Wrought on your race in Cornwall's bay of Bude!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 by Various
He reminds me of the somber words of "Ahasvérus:" "Vous qui manquez de charité, Tremblez à mon supplice étrange: Ce n'est point sa divinité, C'est l'humanité que Dieu venge!"
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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