vengeance
复仇,报复,报仇,复仇行动
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Definitions
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- : infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge: But have you the right to vengeance?
- : an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble: to take one's vengeance.
- : the desire for revenge: a man full of vengeance.
- : Obsolete. hurt; injury.
- : Obsolete. curse; imprecation.
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Examples
“Worry is back with a vengeance,” said Grant Steadman, president of North America for Dunnhumby, in a press release.
In that pocket, tree limbs snapped with a vengeance, creating 100,000 power outages.
Ezio Auditore’s initial arc is one of vengeance, but we see him grow beyond that.
A strict lockdown successfully contained the disease, but it came back with a vengeance in the fall.
He’s a relentless force of holy retribution, mysterious in his origins and unrelenting in his taste for vengeance against the demons who’ve wronged him.
But all these groups are reaching a point where vengeance takes priority over politics or, much less, public relations.
Despite a dizzying number of women coming forward against her husband, Camille Cosby refuses to sharpen her blade of vengeance.
U.S. airstrikes continue, but militants from the so-called Islamic State are still attacking with a vengeance on every front.
In January, if the GOP wins Senate control, he will go after Obama and the EPA with a vengeance.
However, there is at least a sense that security is back on the agenda with a vengeance.
He could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.