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take vengeance

verb as in get back at

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They take vengeance on members of other crews, and in some parts of the city vendettas spread from block to block.

Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.

Oppressed and degraded humanity was about to take vengeance for its ages of accumulated wrongs.

White with passion, the words hissing from his lips, he vowed to take vengeance on the traducer of his niece.

Macpherson, whose Fingal had been treated in the Journey as an impudent forgery, threatened to take vengeance with a cane.

He swore as he lay in prison to take vengeance upon him, while he did not forget his animosity towards the police officials.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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