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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The next year she took her re venge in Fort Lauderdale by humiliating King 6-1, 6-0.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
If I was prevented from writing by last post, cette fois-ci je m'en suis bein venge.
From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.
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
J'ai fait ce que j'ai dû, j'ai vengé mon injure; Fais ton devoir, dit-il, et venge la nature.
From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton
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