revenge
verb (used with object)
to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit.
has revenged
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present perfectof revenge (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They have been at daggers drawn ever since, and Sefton has revenged himself by a thousand jokes at the King’s expense, of which his Majesty is well aware.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve
Flora has revenged herself on me as she meant to do, for defying her power.
From Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse by Anne Wales Abbot
As he has himself said of that satirist, "his provocations were great, and he has revenged them tragically."
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
Homer, too, has had some victims; and if he has suffered from translation, he has revenged himself on his translators.
From Books Fatal to Their Authors by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
Your old rival, the Chevalier, has revenged himself for the rigors of the Countess, by tying himself up with the Marquise, her relative.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton
