Synonym: get even with, retaliate. Similar words: avenge, scavenge, revenue, prevent, vengeance, preventive, prevention, revenue officer. Meaning: [rɪ'vendʒ] n. action taken in return for an injury or offense. v. take revenge for a perceived wrong.
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121. She saw you coming up the drive, and hit on the ideal way to take her revenge.
122. Psyched down after this epic battle I allowed the treacherous turf to gain revenge on the much easier pitch above.
123. Dafoe plays a computer mastermind who seeks revenge on his former employer by commandeering a luxury cruise ship.
124. Mamita, furious at hearing her husband canonized at her expense, took her revenge.
125. The Government's prime motivation is to carry out an act of revenge on coal miners and coal mining communities.
126. Safe for now - but who knows what revenge they are plotting against our next intrusion?
127. Hagen's voice brims with malice as he plots his revenge.
128. They concentrated their strength in the Loop to protect the stores and businesses should the blacks come downtown for revenge.
129. Some, as you know, seek revenge - they riot, they take drugs and generally make damned nuisances of themselves.
130. The girls forced smiles as they had been taught, but Sandi, in revenge, also crossed her eyes.
131. In fact, the farmer was so mean to this young man he determined to exact revenge.
132. Guenelon bears a grudge in his heart, which eventually blossoms into a scheme for revenge.
133. Eventually, the plot disintegrates into a series of dream-like sequences of revenge and triumph.
134. But tensions continued as victims of the repression took revenge against the cadres who had persecuted them.
135. Here rappers become vigilantes or revolutionaries: machines for dispensing rough justice or revenge.
136. The bishop, enraged at being deluded by a mere girl, determined to have his revenge.
137. John's face gleamed as he thought of his plan for revenge.
138. The weary elders of the 1980s take revenge at last upon the hapless victims of the 1960s.
139. She was taking her revenge now on Bathsheba for the difficulties she had experienced in her life.
140. But some of the violence can be put down to attempts at extortion or revenge killings.
141. Hardship and discontent may declare themselves there(Sentencedict), in a victim's revenge.
142. I'm not condoning his behaviour, but I can understand why he wanted revenge on his daughter's attacker.
143. Alternatively the violation can be inverted; like a black comedy, or the assertion of a stark revenge or retribution.
144. So in revenge, Zurich sent their own army to Rapperswil and destroyed the castle.
145. I am a reasonable man, but, forced to revenge, I am not without a certain sense of perversity.
146. Annie has become the subject of her daughter-in-law's revenge by being forced to pay her money to see her grandchild.
147. Nick becomes obsessed with his own feelings of violation and seeks revenge against Sid.
148. If I do as you suggest and tell Billy about us, he will do his damnedest to destroy me in revenge.
149. Their revenge was not complete in the knowledge that they could enter anywhere and take over.
150. Political revenge can be sweet, but it does not improve relations across the aisle or across town.
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