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vengeance
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Learner's definition of VENGEANCE
[noncount]
: the act of doing something to hurt someone because that person did something that hurt you or someone else报复；报仇；复仇
- The fire was set as an act of vengeance.那场大火是一起报复行动。
- He swore vengeance [=revenge] against his son's kidnapper.他发誓要报复绑架他儿子的人。
- Angry protesters wanted to inflict vengeance on the killer.愤怒的抗议者想要对杀人犯进行报复。
with a vengeance
: with great force or effort很大力度地；全力地
- After losing the first three games, the team came back with a vengeance to win the next four.输掉前三场比赛后，这支队全力反击，力争赢得后四场比赛。
- She set to work with a vengeance and finished the job in two hours.她全身心投入工作，两个小时便完成了。
vengeance
noun
ven·geance ˈven-jən(t)s 
: punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense : retribution
Synonyms
Example Sentences
He thought briefly of the long-dead woman bound to this stone in 1654 and burnt alive as a witch. And for what? An over-sharp tongue, delusions, mental eccentricity, to satisfy a private vengeance, the need for a scapegoat in times of sickness or the failure of a harvest, or perhaps as a sacrifice to propitiate a malignant unnamed god? 
P. D. James, The Private Patient, 2008 Unlike the type of cannibalism much of the world had come to know—among desperate explorers, marooned sailors, and victims of famine—the Cinta Larga's consumption of human flesh was born not out of necessity but out of vengeance and an adherence to tribal traditions and ceremony. Candice Millard, The River of Doubt, 2005 As it turns out, police crackdowns in the 1990's did not so much destroy Los Angeles street gangs as temporarily displace them to Central America. Soon they returned with a vengeance; gang-related homicide rose 50 percent between 1999 and 2002. Richard Brookhiser, New York Times Book Review, 9 Jan. 2005 He is trying to do in his corner of Texas what death-penalty opponents say is impossible: enforce capital punishment flawlessly, ensuring that the innocent never spend a day on death row and the guilty are sent there only after trials free of bias and vengeance. John Cloud, Time, 14 July 2003 A holy war may be launched to root out terrorism, but its form must be a punitive crusade, an angry god's vengeance exacted upon sinners, since no proper war can exist when there is no recognition of the other's list of grievances, no awareness of the relentless dynamic binding the powerful and powerless. John Edgar Wideman, Harper's, March 2002 The fire was set as an act of vengeance. Angry protesters wanted to inflict vengeance on the killer. See More
P. D. James, The Private Patient, 2008 Unlike the type of cannibalism much of the world had come to know—among desperate explorers, marooned sailors, and victims of famine—the Cinta Larga's consumption of human flesh was born not out of necessity but out of vengeance and an adherence to tribal traditions and ceremony. Candice Millard, The River of Doubt, 2005 As it turns out, police crackdowns in the 1990's did not so much destroy Los Angeles street gangs as temporarily displace them to Central America. Soon they returned with a vengeance; gang-related homicide rose 50 percent between 1999 and 2002. Richard Brookhiser, New York Times Book Review, 9 Jan. 2005 He is trying to do in his corner of Texas what death-penalty opponents say is impossible: enforce capital punishment flawlessly, ensuring that the innocent never spend a day on death row and the guilty are sent there only after trials free of bias and vengeance. John Cloud, Time, 14 July 2003 A holy war may be launched to root out terrorism, but its form must be a punitive crusade, an angry god's vengeance exacted upon sinners, since no proper war can exist when there is no recognition of the other's list of grievances, no awareness of the relentless dynamic binding the powerful and powerless. John Edgar Wideman, Harper's, March 2002 The fire was set as an act of vengeance. Angry protesters wanted to inflict vengeance on the killer. See More Recent Examples on the Web With more workers returning to offices since Labor Day, the Washington region’s notorious rush-hour traffic has returned with a vengeance, as pandemic-era hybrid schedules have made commuting less predictable and, in many cases, more miserable. Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022 Then the other factor at play kicked in with a vengeance. Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022 The miniskirts that reigned in the early aughts and came back with a vengeance in 2022? Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022 New York Fashion Week is back with a vengeance, with editors, buyers, and influencers buzzing from show to show to see the latest designs from the industry's biggest names. Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2022 Some of the bugs that stopped circulating in the early part of the pandemic have come back with a vengeance, and scientists worry that the same will be true when flu activity returns to pre-pandemic levels. Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 Sep. 2022 Jordan Wright: The sixth-year player returned from suspension with a vengeance. Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2022 After more than two years of unprecedentedly low flu case numbers — thanks to COVID-19 restrictions that made exposure to all viruses less likely — health experts are expecting the flu to return with a vengeance this season. Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2022 Wedding season, after two years of cancellations and delays, came back with a vengeance in 2022 ... Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022 See More
Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022 Then the other factor at play kicked in with a vengeance. Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022 The miniskirts that reigned in the early aughts and came back with a vengeance in 2022? Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022 New York Fashion Week is back with a vengeance, with editors, buyers, and influencers buzzing from show to show to see the latest designs from the industry's biggest names. Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2022 Some of the bugs that stopped circulating in the early part of the pandemic have come back with a vengeance, and scientists worry that the same will be true when flu activity returns to pre-pandemic levels. Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 Sep. 2022 Jordan Wright: The sixth-year player returned from suspension with a vengeance. Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2022 After more than two years of unprecedentedly low flu case numbers — thanks to COVID-19 restrictions that made exposure to all viruses less likely — health experts are expecting the flu to return with a vengeance this season. Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2022 Wedding season, after two years of cancellations and delays, came back with a vengeance in 2022 ... Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English vengeaunce, borrowed from Anglo-French, from venger "to exact satisfaction for" (going back to Latin vindicāre "to lay claim to, exact retribution for") + -aunce -ance — more at vindicate
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of vengeance was in the 14th century Phrases Containing vengeance
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