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
Then, losell Locrine, look unto thy self, Thrasimachus will venge this injury.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Or did stern Ares venge his thankless spear Through this night foray that hath cost thee dear!
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
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 Painter, William
The mace, returning back, his own hand hit As meaning to be venged for darting it.
From Hero and Leander by Marlowe, Christopher
And I on it againe will venged bee.
From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous
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 Burney, Fanny
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 Williams, Albert Rhys
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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