Vengeance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
  • idiom. with a vengeance With great violence or force.
  • idiom. with a vengeance To an extreme degree: December has turned cold with a vengeance.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
  • n. Harm; mischief.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense.
  • n. Harm, mischief, or evil generally: formerly often used as an imprecation, especially in the phrase what a (the) vengeance!
  • n. Synonyms 1. Retribution, Retaliation, etc. See revenge.
  • Extremely; very.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
    • Equivalent
    what the vengeance   
    Antonym
    reconciliation   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    retaliation    revenge   
    Cross Reference
    with a vengeance   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    retribution    harm    mischief    retaliation    revenge   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    revenge    wrath    cruelty    punishment    malice   
     
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