revenge
verb (used with object)
to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit.
had revenged
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past perfectof revenge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Most sons would by now have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus ended the noisy election, concerning which we cannot say whether it was as pleasing to the others as it was to Bulba; by means of it he had revenged himself on the former Koschevoi.
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
For the scorn with which he had been treated he had revenged himself—though it was he who from the centre of the Plaza had cried “Basta!”
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
She had done him injustice, and—unknowing—he had revenged himself.
From Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward
She had revenged herself for the upper berth by securing a room much better placed than Henriette's.
From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper
