venge

[venj] / vɛndʒ /

VERB

avenge

Synonyms

STRONGEST

vindicate

STRONG

chasten chastise punish redress repay requite revenge

WEAK

come back at even the score get back at get even payback retribute stick it to take satisfaction take vengeance

Antonyms

STRONG

cheer comfort encourage forgive

VERB

revenge

Synonyms

STRONGEST

avenge get back at vindicate

STRONG

defend fix get justify match punish reciprocate redress repay requite retort return score square

WEAK

be out for blood even the score fight back fix one's wagon get even give comeuppance hit back kick back make reprisal pay back pay back in spades pay off return the compliment settle up settle with stick it to take an eye for an eye turn the tables on

Antonyms

STRONG

deny depart fail leave lose refuse request surrender take

WEAK

forgive pardon sympathize

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In season Rinaldo comes to venge the secret treason.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

This shewes you are aboue You Iustices, that these our neather crimes So speedily can venge.

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

Ah! shades of Yarrell, Morris, Bewick, Wood, Swoop down from Nephelococcygian eyrie With legions of bird-phantoms, Roc-ghosts and spectral bantams, And venge the Vandal sporting-man's vagary, Wrought on your race in Cornwall's bay of Bude!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 by Various

venge

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