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synonyms for vengeance

  • reprisal
  • retribution
  • revenge
  • counterblow
  • repayment
  • requital
  • return
  • vengefulness
  • wrath
  • avengement
  • avenging
  • evening of score
  • eye for an eye
  • getting even
  • settling of score
  • tit for tat

antonyms for vengeance

MOST RELEVANT
  • forgiveness
  • pardon
  • sympathy
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How to use vengeance in a sentence

“Worry is back with a vengeance,” said Grant Steadman, president of North America for Dunnhumby, in a press release.
AMERICANS ARE MORE WORRIED THAN EVER ABOUT CORONAVIRUS—BUT ARE DOING LESS TO COMBAT ITBETH KOWITTDECEMBER 17, 2020FORTUNE
In that pocket, tree limbs snapped with a vengeance, creating 100,000 power outages.
ICE STORMS: INSIDE WINTERTIME’S DREADED, FROZEN MESSJEFFREY HALVERSONDECEMBER 2, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Ezio Auditore’s initial arc is one of vengeance, but we see him grow beyond that.
ALL THE ‘ASSASSIN’S CREED’ GAMES, RANKEDELISE FAVIS, GENE PARKNOVEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POST
A strict lockdown successfully contained the disease, but it came back with a vengeance in the fall.
50 MILLION WORLD COVID-19 CASES: THE BIGGEST OUTBREAKS, EXPLAINEDCHRISTINA ANIMASHAUNNOVEMBER 9, 2020VOX
He’s a relentless force of holy retribution, mysterious in his origins and unrelenting in his taste for vengeance against the demons who’ve wronged him.
DOOM ETERNAL IS THE BEST DOOM GAME EVER MADE, PERIODMATTHEW GAULTMARCH 19, 2020TIME
He could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
The teeth of beasts, and scorpions, and serpents, and the sword taking vengeance upon the ungodly unto destruction.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
And they sought out all iniquities, till vengeance came upon them, and put an end to all their sins.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
If he had set out to arouse emotion in these two sluggish breasts he had done so with a vengeance.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
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WORDS RELATED TO VENGEANCE

  • an eye for an eye
  • balance
  • counterattack
  • counterbalance
  • counterblow
  • countermove
  • counteroffensive
  • counterpoise
  • counterstrike
  • neutralization
  • offset
  • reciprocation
  • reprisal
  • retribution
  • revenge
  • vengeance
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.