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
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
In all good faith was Giselher ready to venge her wrong.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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
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