venge
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of venge
1250–1300; Middle English vengen < Old French veng ( i ) er < Latin vindicāre; see vindicate
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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
For thou hast carried with thee to the grave The only hope that in my heart yet lived, The hope that thou wouldst some day come to venge Thy sire and me.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Goldwin Smith
In season Rinaldo comes to venge the secret treason.
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
For the law indifferently doth punish euery man, that without the Magistrates order taketh authority to venge his own wrong.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
O the jeade! if I ben't venged of un! a would no' know me this very blessed morning!'
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
The mace, returning back, his own hand hit As meaning to be venged for darting it.
From Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe
And I on it againe will venged bee.
From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous
A frail little soul with only spiritual weapons, she fought for her hearth against a venging host in arms; facing these rough war- stained men, she forced her trembling body to outward calm and graciousness.
From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Albert Rhys Williams
Oh, let not curses fall upon that head Whom love hath cradled on the welcome bed Of bliss, the bosom of our fairest god, Or hand of love e'er grasp the venging rod.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
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