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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151. You have to go beyond that, transcend revenge and pique and cruelty and cowardice.
152. Some seek revenge for atrocities committed in suppressing the Shia uprising.
153. Many of them, however, are already out of prison, and there have been no reported revenge attacks by Hezbollah.
154. She went on record to reassure parents that no children were taken with a revenge motive.
155. How this rock widow and ageing wild child cons, manipulates and exploits the sharks makes for a delightful tale of revenge.
156. Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan are two jilted lovers who combine to seek revenge on their former partners.
157. When de Raimes had exacted his revenge he would hand her over to his knight, who would complete her destruction.
158. The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. Marcus Aurelius
159. Detectives feared he was out for revenge and armed police were put on guard at police stations.
160. It was Sutton's chance for revenge on his old foe Kelvin Mackenzie.
161. Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers.
162. This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her.
163. Some people were beginning to talk about retaliation or revenge against the authorities responsible.
164. We got our revenge on Kel for 1960 good and proper, and no one else was in it.
165. But he achieves this with an intense desire for revenge.
166. If the population declines, then so does the level of revenge killings and warfare.
167. The bloodthirsty Beck clan wants him dead, even if they have to extract their revenge right there in the courtroom.Sentencedict
168. It was a great way to get revenge for various slights, lost jobs, bad reviews or even undeserved success.
169. In this ethnographic imperialism if in no other way, the cultures anthropologists study and plagiarize gain their revenge.
170. He doubted if his hatred of Dysart could even be honoured with the description of revenge.
171. Living well, it seems, is the best revenge, even for a genial poet.
172. And revenge had been in his mind when playing the joke on Music Week.
173. Citation is here an act of revenge against what is seen as a liberal apologetics for black crime.
174. And at the same time exact revenge on the whites he so despises?
175. He had his revenge in March 1322, when he was among the royalist army which defeated Lancaster at Boroughbridge.
176. Revenge and the search for justice change the life of Jimmie Rainwood played by Tom Selleck.
177. Happily, the urge to commit suicide was itself long dead, buried beneath her need for revenge.
178. The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus Aurelius
179. The man wants revenge, pure and simple, and he's working logically through the family, saving Stone until last.
180. The defense said that the victim's story was a total fabrication designed to get revenge.
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