(v. t.) To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
(v. t.) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
(v. i.) To take vengeance.
(n.) Vengeance; revenge.
Example Sentences:
(1) For my money, Batman should be teamed up with the Burka Avenger .
(2) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(3) Isis recently threatened to kill American hostages to avenge the crushing airstrikes in Iraq against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
(4) Last October, apparently to avenge charges of drift, the Culture Department launched its library services modernisation review in an avalanche of wonk-speak that suggested little understanding of what brilliant places libraries can be.
(5) As Gabrielle is at pains to point out, there was no unhappy childhood to avenge; no traumas to shove into the creative crucible.
(6) Some of the Shia militias taking part in the campaign have also said they want to avenge the infamous Camp Speicher massacre, one of the largest incidents of mass execution by Isis, when up to 1,700 Iraqi Shia army cadets were massacred last year.
(7) Click here to watch It has been reported elsewhere that Star Wars could be packaged in line with the studio's Marvel universe, which successfully delivered a series of comic book films focusing on individual superheroes before bringing them all together for the $1.5bn box office hit The Avengers earlier this year.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a year of expensive sequels ahead (Avengers: Age of Ultron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens are both budgeted at more than $200m), it’s a vital time for a dramatic uplift in both US and international box office, which has seen a reduced rate of growth in the past three years.
(9) LG Assembly Hall, Edinburgh ( nationaltheatrescotland.com ), 17 September Electra Kristin Scott Thomas stars as Sophocles’s murderous heroine who joins with her brother, Orestes, to avenge their father’s death.
(10) Mosque attack – A man has been arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in Paris, reportedly to avenge attacks linked to Isis that have killed dozens in Paris in recent years.
(11) Maybe instead of being assembled in different formations – such as the Marvel Avengers, or Superman and Batman – American superheroes could benefit from a sort of cultural exchange programme.
(12) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(13) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.
(14) Jackson's comments led the adult star Catalina Cruz to call for a boycott of his movies , telling the Avengers actor that "these sites are stealing whole members' areas and have to potential to kill an industry."
(15) The Avengers, $392.5m Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Guardian Film Show discusses Jurassic World.
(16) Black Widow: girls and boys need more kick-ass female Avengers action figures Read more Rival studios made the wise decision to avoid putting new movies up against Disney-Marvel’s superhero epic, resulting in a complete absence of competing debutants in North America.
(17) The stated desire to avenge the massacre has also given rise to fears by locals from Tikrit that the militias may carry out retributive killings or summary executions.
(18) Watson was hoping to avenge his defeat but instead the world watched as Eubank caught Watson with a devastating uppercut in the 11th round.
(19) The attacks were “to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers”, a spokesman said.
(20) It appears the so-called "Avengers bounce" which helped Shane Black's film to a $1.2m haul, is still in place.
Vengeance
Definition:
(n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
(n.) Harm; mischief.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(2) But within a few months, the disease came back with a vengeance and killed.
(3) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
(4) Where we already have the electoral numbers, our political vengeance has been merciless against the GOP; witness California after its electoral dalliance with anti-immigrant policies or Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 campaign .
(5) Vengeance and the wish to punish are understandable reactions to feeling duped and fooled.
(6) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
(7) It sounds like the premise for a Stephen King thriller, but this tale of fixation and vengeance is the latest chapter of the writer's real life.
(8) Game of Thrones Trailer #2 - Vengeance (HBO) Another world 4.
(9) And this short-lived fixation will move the conversation away from the administrations’s chaotic (or nonexistent) foreign policy, away from Trump’s impulsive vengeance undertaken on behalf of the very same “beautiful babies” he has prevented from entering our country.
(10) Yet the smog came back with a vengeance on Wednesday.
(11) The four horsemen of Trident – Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance – take it in turn to provide a continuous patrol of the world's oceans, wielding a cargo of up to 16 Trident ballistic missiles.
(12) The author examines how these negative affects, the accompanying victim role, and oppositional defiance enable angry adolescents to defend against depression and loss, to demand nurturance from others, to protect their precarious inner autonomy, and to undo their humiliation and shame by vengeance and reversal.
(13) Such gruesome stories of expedience and vengeance have proliferated as fast as North Korea’s missile programmes during Kim’s five-year reign.
(14) It took five months but it seems that the "sad 4chaners" have now indeed reached Gawker, with a vengeance.
(15) In our own way, it is a form of vengeance: by gossiping, we have the feeling we're plotting.
(16) "They hate us, with a vengeance," said another Liverpool officer, adding that the rioters were not dissimilar to the officer's son, who had "fallen by the wayside" ... "He's grown up in a hard area, you know.
(17) As part of a growing threat to the Seven Kingdoms from beyond the Wall, what will her lust for vengeance mean?
(18) As Sarah Zielinski from Smithsonian magazine , Kristen Philipkoski on Gizmodo and Mel Robbins on cnn.com state ringingly, while freezing may kill some germs, it most certainly won't kill all, and the germs will return with a vengeance once you wear those jeans again and heat them up to body temperature.
(19) There still exists a view that Bashir's government is all that stands between stability and the barbarians at the gate, ready to storm the capital city and wreak vengeance for all the grievances inflicted by the Arab centre of power.
(20) Blockbuster machine Marvel were somewhat more successful when they went for a darker approach to Thor: The Dark World in 2013, with a tale filled with vengeance, surprise deaths and dimly-filtered Icelandic locations.