venge
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of venge
1250–1300; Middle English vengen < Old French veng ( i ) er < Latin vindicāre; 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
Image of the beast What a pitiful sight is malice, finding pleasure in re- 327:9 venge!
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
Alas, how fiercely Hagen gan venge the knight!
From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier
That others do, I was about to say, enjoy your—But It is an office of the gods to venge it, Not mine to speak on't.
From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William
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