noun
verb
definition
To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
example
Arsenal revenged its loss to Manchester United last time with a 5–0 drubbing this time.
definition
To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).
definition
To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
Examples of revenge in a Sentence
His revenge was all that would make him whole again.
Maybe this kind of revenge really is better.
If she wanted revenge, she might simply try to break them up.
He sought revenge then; he did so again now.
You lived for nothing but revenge.
What was more important than power, betrayal and revenge, the tenets on which he built his life?
What if he took revenge on her for what she planned to do?
The demons want revenge.
I want my revenge against Sasha and Kris both, but there are innocent people there.
Revenge might be far more than harassment.
I want revenge for my daughter.s treatment at Sasha.s hands, and I want the vial or the girl.
It had the effect they desired of convincing the Others he had crushed the gem and was unleashing hell on earth in his quest for revenge for them taking Jessi.
But he if thought her dead, and he was taking revenge on Qatwal, then some part of him must've cared!
He wanted revenge against Memon for his family's death, but revenge isn't enough down here.
John was now a septuagenarian "king in exile," but he was still vigorous enough to revenge himself on Frederick, by commanding the papal troops which attacked southern Italy during the emperor's absence on the sixth crusade (1228-1229).
That power had been on the point of offering her armed mediation in revenge for his violation of her territory of Anspach; but she was fain to accept the terms which he offered at the sword's point.
In 1670 Monmouth was with the court at Dover, and it is affirmed by Reresby that the mysterious death of Charles's sister, Henrietta, duchess of Orleans, was due to her husband's revenge on the discovery of her intrigue with the duke.
In exchange, she would help me seek revenge against those who cast us out after I was born.
His mother Khamko, a woman of extraordinary character, thereupon herself formed and led a brigand band, and studied to inspire the boy with her own fierce and indomitable temper, with a view to revenge and the recovery of the lost property.
When Julian visited the place in 362 the impudent population railed at him for his favour to Jewish and pagan rites, and to revenge itself for the closing of its great church of Constantine, burned down the temple of Apollo in Daphne.
His first care was to revenge his brother's death, and though it seems that Sasanka escaped destruction for a while (he was still ruling in 619), Harsha's experience of warfare encouraged him to make preparations for bringing all India under his sway.
Resentment, however, incited him to personal revenge on the Californian government, and an ambition that clearly saw the gravity of the crisis prompted him to improve it unscrupulously for his own advancement, leaving his The government to support or disavow him according as P1 war should come or not.
Gospel; another exile was Justinian II., who is said to have destroyed the city in revenge.
This provokes you to go on a roaring rampage of revenge as you try and find out the who 's, whys and wherefores.
A more controversial example may be the universal thirst for revenge.
Psychological signs might include an increased desire to drink or use drugs, depression or fantasies of revenge.
A minor transgression that the other person may not even remember is probably not important enough to warrant a full-blown revenge prank.
If so, play this dark game of revenge with the following hints in mind.
An orange lily stands for revenge or anger.
Otherwise your feelings might generate anger or revenge.
Sure he was hurt, angry and grieving, but revenge?
Personal protection and revenge, oaths, marriage, wardship, succession, supervision over settlement, and good behaviour, are regulated by the law of kinship. A man's actions are considered not as exertions of his individual will, but as acts of the kindred, and all the fellows of the maegth are held responsible for them.
In 1804 the maharao raja Bishan Singh gave valuable assistance to Colonel Monson in his disastrous retreat before Holkar, in revenge for which the Mahratas and Pindaris continually ravaged his state up to 1817.
Henry never forgave the audacity; but, for the moment, the only revenge he could take was upon More's father, whom upon some pretext he threw into the Tower, and he only released him upon payment of a fine of £ioo.
She herself, however, fell in love with the young prince, and Berenice in revenge formed a conspiracy, and, having slain Demetrius, married Ptolemy's son (see Berenice, 3).
Charles used his influence to carry through parliament the act of indemnity, and the execution of some of the regicides was a measure not more severe than was to be expected in the times and circumstances; but that of Sir Henry Vane, who was not a regicide and whose life Charles had promised the parliament to spare in case of his condemnation, was brought about by Charles's personal insistence in revenge for the victim's high bearing during his trial, and was an act of gross cruelty and perfidy.
The phenomena of feeling, of desire and aversion, of love and hatred, of fear and revenge, and the perception of external relations manifested in the life of brutes, imply, not only through the analogy which they display to the human faculties, but likewise from all that we can learn or conjecture of their particular nature, the superadded existence of a principle distinct from the mere mechanism of material bodies.
Edward was furious and exacted his revenge by ransacking the town of Berwick in 1296 and killing everyone he found.
As a result the makers did not shy away from a graphically realistic depiction of rape, murder and revenge.
Poseidon was n't happy about this and called upon the king of the gods, Zeus, to reek a terrible revenge.
The film tells of a covert hit squad put together by Israeli intelligence to wreak revenge.
In Netball the 1st team will be seeking revenge for the single point defeat at the hands of Sheffield Hallam.
It is believed that this was a planned assassination in revenge for the killing of Jack Harris.
While these could never be directly tied back to the government they were widely seen as the revenge for the murder of Neave.
Despite the loss, the Lancaster teams all enjoyed the trip away, and are looking forward to taking sweet revenge next May....
Author enters revenge fantasy, in which Postal Employe is sealed in plastic envelope and sent Priority Mail to the bottom of the sea.
Of course, " there was no evidence it was a revenge attack " according to a US army source.
The girl later died (from " unhappiness "), and Jefferson swore revenge on the one who took her away.
However, his works were not limited to these tales of bravery, intrigue and revenge.
Gladstone, the truculent old man, will quail before the pointing finger of revenge.