revenge
verb (used with object)
to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit.
will revenge
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future tenseof revenge.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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I swear by your cruelty that I will revenge it; by your wonderful beauty that I will win it, and be worthy to win it.
From Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Soon they got close to the Tower of Ypres, which Mrs. Ward well describes as "mute witness of a crime that beyond the reparation of our own day, history will revenge through years to come."
From The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend by Joseph Hodges Choate
"It is not quite so bad as your calling Tottleben a notorious adventurer; for the princes are not here, but Tottleben is before the gates of Berlin, and will revenge himself."
From The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
Tired of this, the little Auvergnat said one day, 'Well, well, I will revenge myself on you, you lubberly baboon!'
From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Eugène Sue
I tell thee, Mark, old Marius is at hand, The very patron of this happy law, Who will revenge thy cunning eloquence.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
