revenge
verb (used with object)
to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit.
revenger
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a word derived from
revenge.
Example Sentences
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Some of her colleagues, she says, classify offenders in five sometimes overlapping categories: the ex-partner, the revenger of perceived wrongs, the rejected suitor, the lonely incompetent suitor and the sexual predator.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2023
Earlier, in Josey Wales, she was the young granddaughter of a woman, rescued from Comanches by the revenger Wales.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2018
Reared on the rueful abstraction that revenge reaps no pleasure for the revenger, it seems lifeless.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shiva is the destroyer, revenger, and the conqueror of Death.
From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Ida Pfeiffer
We may cheer many a saddened heart by cheerful words, and sometimes entice the young revenger to forget and forgive.
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
