Definitions for vengeance

vengeance venge·ance

Spelling: [ven-juh ns]
IPA: /ˈvɛn dʒəns/

Vengeance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in vengeance (aceeegnnv).

Definitions for vengeance

noun

  1. infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge:
  2. an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble:
  3. the desire for revenge:
  4. Obsolete. hurt; injury.
  5. Obsolete. curse; imprecation.

Idioms

  1. with a vengeance, with force or violence. greatly; extremely. to an unreasonable, excessive, or surprising degree:

Origin of vengeance

1250-1300; Middle English Old French, equivalent to vengi(er) to avenge (see venge) + -ance -ance

Examples for vengeance

God's object at that time was not the safety of the Jews, but vengeance.

From this marble Phidias sculptured a statue of vengeance, which was called Rhamnusia.

In January, if the GOP wins Senate control, he will go after Obama and the EPA with a vengeance.

U.S. airstrikes continue, but militants from the so-called Islamic State are still attacking with a vengeance on every front.

He would avenge me, it is true, but it is not to him that I shall look for vengeance.

But all these groups are reaching a point where vengeance takes priority over politics or, much less, public relations.

Who knew what vengeance they might take for the killing of the Padres?

However, there is at least a sense that security is back on the agenda with a vengeance.

This was the vengeance for which she had longed, for which she had plotted, the vengeance she had at last achieved.

Despite a dizzying number of women coming forward against her husband, Camille Cosby refuses to sharpen her blade of vengeance.

Word Value for vengeance
Scrable

15

Words with friends

20

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