(v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
(v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
(v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with
(n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
(n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
Example Sentences:
(1) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.
(2) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
(3) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
(4) At Mabhouh's funeral, near Damascus, the Hamas leader Khalid Meshal blamed Israel for the killing, promising revenge and declaring an "open war".
(5) A statement from al-Shabaab on Monday said the latest attack – the deadliest since Westgate – was revenge for the "Kenyan government's brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars".
(6) Revenge would be sweet, having been knocked out by PSG last season , while Chelsea’s Champions League win in 2012 came at the end of a campaign where domestically they struggled – though not quite as egregiously – after André Villas-Boas left mid-season and was replaced by Roberto Di Matteo.
(7) Scores of Jordanians, infuriated by Kasasbeh’s killing, gathered at midnight in a main square in Amman calling for revenge and her quick execution.
(8) England and Wales criminalised revenge porn in April this year.
(9) "On both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith they were very cagey about going public with the cast until the very last minute, as there were still negotiations going on up to the wire.
(10) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
(11) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
(12) After Hollande spent two hours on French radio in a patent relaunch of his presidency, a film producer announced that a biopic of Trierweiler’s revenge memoir, Merci Pour Ce Moment (Thank You For This Moment), is now in the works.
(13) Following his defection, Hwang lived in Seoul under tight police security amid fears North Korean agents might try to take revenge.
(14) Evidently fuelled by the agony of losing a series twelve months ago when the trophy was almost within their grasp, they also had the teamwork, technique and experience to turn their quest for revenge into a reality.
(15) On Tuesday, Newsnight seemed to have hit on a neat form of revenge against stay-away ministers.
(16) There was anecdotal evidence to suggest revenge pornography images were being circulated among teenagers in schools and applications such as Snapchat (where photos disappear after a few seconds) were lulling young people into a false sense of security.
(17) Israel recently criminalized revenge porn and Canada , Brazil , and Japan are taking similar steps.
(18) Manchester United 0-2 Arsenal 16 February 2003, fifth round, Old Trafford Arsenal had to wait four years for Cup revenge.
(19) I just saw him in an article on Facebook and I immediately thought: this is not Mered!” A second witness, whose name is known to the Guardian and will be given to the court, asked not to be named specifically because he believes the real smuggler is still at large in Sudan, and could take revenge on his family there.
(20) After so long being derided, is this disco's revenge?
Vendetta
Definition:
(n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Example Sentences:
(1) I followed Brooks over the seven-month period from when he was arrested until he was cleared, and the Guardian published a story stating that Brooks had been the victim of a police vendetta .
(2) So, too, does the bloody tradition of "rido", meaning clan warfare and inter-communal vendettas.
(3) Shaina Nana Chudasama, the spokeswoman for Modi's Hindu nationalist party, said that some charges against politicians were filed due to political vendettas.
(4) The Manchester experiment must be given a fair opportunity to succeed or fail, because local democracy is too important to be at the mercy of vendettas or changing fashions in planning policy, especially when instability plagues national politics in Britain.
(5) Erdoğan has also been criticised by EU countries for pursuing his vendetta with the Kurds while failing to stem the northwards flow of Syrian refugees and the southwards flow of Isis recruits from Europe and North America.
(6) Shiner also accused the government of pursuing a personal vendetta against him in revenge for his work gathering hundreds of cases against British forces in Iraq.
(7) Albanian's penal code refers to vendetta as premeditated murder, but the courts are still at a loss to know how to cope with this parallel system of justice.
(8) The connection was such that before long Ava had, Munn claims, chosen him as the person to whom she would confide all she knew about her ex-husband, Frank Sinatra , and his vendetta against mafia boss Sam Giancana, which in turn became the inside story of the Kennedys' involvement in the murder of Marilyn Monroe.
(9) It goes without saying that this charge is bogus and the result of a political vendetta.
(10) In a country such as Russia, where some people criticise their leaders for not being authoritarian enough, judicial vendettas are still tolerated by many – but if a genuine economic crisis hits Russia and the opposition's ranks grow further, we may be in for a wild ride.
(11) The decision was driven by the Tasmanian Liberals who have run a vendetta against the Greens and environmentalists since they lost their battle to flood the Franklin in 1983,” said Brown.
(12) The killing of Kevin McGuigan on 12 August was an internal republican vendetta for the shooting of a former IRA commander in May.
(13) Kandahar is a hotbed of long-running personal vendettas.
(14) The GOP – with its decades-running vendetta against women of people of color – allowed him to step right into the party’s candidacy, swapping over 40 years of dog-whistle politics for an attack hound bent on going after those already on the losing end of Republican policies.
(15) Supporters of the Anonymous hacking collective wore Guy Fawkes masks in reference to the cult pro-revolution film V for Vendetta.
(16) The Coalition’s Senate leader, Eric Abetz, told parliament the move was part of Palmer’s “personal vendetta” against Newman.
(17) V IS FOR VENDETTA Fergie pursued dangerous rivals across the pages of national newspapers with unmatched vigour.
(18) In 1975 Margaret Thatcher spoke of the Labour government’s “disastrous vendetta against small businesses and the self-employed”.
(19) The Azerbaijani media, which often acts as a mouth piece for the government, responded to the news by accusing Clooney of harbouring a vendetta against the Turkic countries of central Asia.
(20) It was necessary for God to come "down" personally to Earth and have himself tortured and executed, after being "betrayed" (though why it was a betrayal since getting himself executed was the main purpose of the visit, is never explained, nor is the millennia-long vendetta against Jews as "Christ-killers").