Vengeance

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  • noun. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Extremely; very.
  • noun. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense.
  • noun. Harm, mischief, or evil generally: formerly often used as an imprecation, especially in the phrase what a (the) vengeance!
  • noun. Synonyms 1. Retribution, Retaliation, etc. See revenge.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
  • noun. Harm; mischief.
  • noun. what! -- emphatically.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. with even greater intensity.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
    • Word Usage
    "And 'vengeance' is used by the highest authorities."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    reconciliation  
    cross-reference
    with a vengeance  
    Equivalent
    what the vengeance  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    retaliation  revenge  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ambition  cruelty  hate  justice  lust  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    avengement  avenging  blood feud  counterblow  energetically  
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