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
Thus studied, it had revenged itself by taking possession of her.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
The matrons mourned for Brutus a whole year, because he had revenged the death of Lucretia.
From A Smaller History of Rome by Sir William Smith
