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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
  2. idiom. with a vengeance With great violence or force.
  3. idiom. with a vengeance To an extreme degree: December has turned cold with a vengeance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense. Vengeance generally implies indignation on the part of the punisher, and more or less justice in the nature of the punishment; it may also be inflicted for wrong done to others, as well as to the punisher, in which respects it is usually distinguished from revenge.
  2. n. Harm, mischief, or evil generally: formerly often used as an imprecation, especially in the phrase what a (the) vengeance!
  3. n. Synonyms 1. Retribution, Retaliation, etc. See revenge.
  4. Extremely; very.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
  2. n. obsolete Harm; mischief.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

Etymologies

  1. Old French venger ("avenge") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from vengier, to avenge, from Latin vindicāre; see vindicate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. retribution
  1. harm
  1. mischief
  1. retaliation
  1. revenge
  1. reprisal

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘vengeance’

  1. what the vengeance

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. reconciliation

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. retaliation
  1. revenge

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. revenge
  2. wrath
  3. cruelty
  1. punishment
  2. malice
  3. persecution
  1. lust
  2. violence
  3. ambition
  1. justice
  2. hate
  3. retribution
  1. oppression
  2. sorrow
  3. triumph
  1. satisfaction

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. revenge
  2. blood-revenge
  3. vengeance
  4. Nemesis
  5. maranatha
  6. commination
  7. venge
  8. vial
  9. wreak
  10. revengeance
  1. blood-feud
  2. vengeful
  3. antiphrasis
  4. ate
  5. avenge
  6. avengeance
  7. avenger
  8. avengeful
  9. avengement
  10. awreak
  1. wrath
  2. wrathful
  3. Bastet
  4. unavenged
  5. get
  6. payback
  7. retaliator
  8. scourge
  9. nemesis
  10. vengeancely
  1. fix
  2. payoff
  3. avenged
  4. sacred
  5. sword
  6. ultion
  7. vengement
  8. visitation
  9. wanion
  10. whoop
  1. anger
  2. clamant
  3. curse
  4. draw
  5. execute
  6. feel
  7. fury
  8. Harpy
  9. hate
  10. retribution
  1. vendetta

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  1. often misspelled
  1. Grade Level 8

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  • dbekeny WITCH
    You stay out of this! I'm here for
    vengeance! So it was you, was it? You killed
    her,....

    Jun 11, 2010

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