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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Do not attempt it; he has revenged himself and has done well.
From Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas père
And see how cruelly fate has revenged herself on me, who fought with her so bravely!
From Ivanoff by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
What of Henry of Huntingdon, who, besides a learned history of England, wrote a treatise on the contempt of the world, which the world has revenged by forgetting him?
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
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
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
