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  2. the punishing of someone for harming you or your friends or family, or the wish for such punishment to happen: The story features a woman who is evicted from her home and is seeking vengeance. As he cradled his daughter's lifeless body in his arms, he swore (to take) vengeance on her killers. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

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  3. The meaning of VENGEANCE is punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense : retribution. How to use vengeance in a sentence.

  4. the punishing of someone for harming you or your friends or family, or the wish for such punishment to happen: The story features a woman who is evicted from her home and is seeking vengeance. As he cradled his daughter's lifeless body in his arms, he swore (to take) vengeance on her killers. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  5. What does vengeance mean? Vengeance is a desire for revenge — retaliation against or punishment of someone for some kind of harm that they caused or wrongdoing that they did (whether real or perceived).

  6. (informal) to a greater degree than is expected or usual. She set to work with a vengeance. After two days the infection came back with a vengeance. After a poor season last year, he’s back with a vengeance. See vengeance in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: vengeance.

  7. Vengeance is the act of killing, injuring, or harming someone because they have harmed you. He swore vengeance on everyone involved in the murder. [+ on] She cried aloud to the gods for vengeance for the loss of her daughter. Synonyms: revenge, retaliation, reprisal, retribution More Synonyms of vengeance. 2. See with a vengeance.

  8. Vengeance is a downward spiral of pain and betrayal, one person hurting another, who hurts another, and so on. You might demand vengeance if your brother throws your favorite jeans into a tree, and your brother might feel the same way after you spit gum in his hair. The phrase “with a vengeance” means to do something with a lot of intensity.