venge
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of venge
1250–1300; Middle English vengen < Old French veng ( i ) er < Latin vindicāre; see vindicate
Example Sentences
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Novelist Roald Dahl has adapted his short story William and Mary, about the eerie re venge of a browbeaten wife, as the first offering in a new series intended to exploit eccentric stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next year she took her re venge in Fort Lauderdale by humiliating King 6-1, 6-0.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am not of Dr. Hickes's mind, Qu'il venge.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan
Alas, how fiercely Hagen gan venge the knight!
From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier
And has our shame Brought us to this, that some barbarian foe Shall venge Hesperia's wrongs ere Rome her own?
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
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