venge

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The next year she took her re venge in Fort Lauderdale by humiliating King 6-1, 6-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

Novelist Roald Dahl has adapted his short story William and Mary, about the eerie re venge of a browbeaten wife, as the first offering in a new series intended to exploit eccentric stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

And has our shame Brought us to this, that some barbarian foe Shall venge Hesperia's wrongs ere Rome her own?

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

He reminds me of the somber words of "Ahasvérus:"   "Vous qui manquez de charité,   Tremblez à mon supplice étrange:   Ce n'est point sa divinité,   C'est l'humanité que Dieu venge!"

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

J'ai fait ce que j'ai dû, j'ai vengé mon injure; Fais ton devoir, dit-il, et venge la nature.

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton