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
The help you would have called for, I will attend you to; for I will face them all: but not as a revenger, if they provoke me not too much.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
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
