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The synonyms of “Vengeance” are: payback, retribution, revenge, retaliation, requital, reprisal
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “vengeance” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| payback | The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life–Romans 12:19. A long time lag between investment and payback. |
| reprisal | The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation. Three youths died in the reprisals which followed. |
| requital | A justly deserved penalty. |
| retaliation | Action taken in return for an injury or offense. She rejected as preposterous any suggestion that she had acted in retaliation. |
| retribution | The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life–Romans 12:19. Employees asked not to be named saying they feared retribution. |
| revenge | (in sporting contexts) the defeat of a person or team by whom one was beaten in a previous encounter. Zimbabwe snatched the game 18 16 but the Spanish had their revenge later. |
| avenge | Take revenge for a perceived wrong. We must avenge our dead. |
| bring | Go or come after and bring or take back. Can I bring my cousin to the dinner. |
| complaint | An illness or medical condition, especially a relatively minor one. There were complaints that the building was an eyesore. |
| enemy | A personal enemy. Routine is the enemy of art. |
| futilely | In a futile and unproductive manner. |
| gloat | An act of gloating. I would join her for a good gloat. |
| grudge | Bear a grudge harbor ill feelings. Holding a grudge. |
| harassment | The act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism. They face daily harassment and assault on the streets. |
| hate | Feel intense dislike for. He hates flying. |
| intimidation | A communication that makes you afraid to try something. The election was marred by allegations of government intimidation and vote rigging. |
| killing | Exhausting or unbearable. A killing joke. |
| malice | Feeling a need to see others suffer. I bear no malice towards anybody. |
| mischief | Playfulness that is intended to tease or create trouble. Her eyes twinkled with irrepressible mischief. |
| opposition | The principal parliamentary party opposed to that in office. Despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead. |
| punish | Impose a penalty on inflict punishment on. A rise in prescription charges would punish the poor. |
| rancor | A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. |
| reprisal | The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation. Three youths died in the reprisals which followed. |
| requital | An act of requiting; returning in kind. |
| retaliate | Make an attack in return for a similar attack. They used their abilities to retaliate the injury. |
| retaliation | The action of harming someone because they have harmed oneself; revenge. She rejected as preposterous any suggestion that she had acted in retaliation. |
| retribution | Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act. The swiftness of divine retribution. |
| revenge | Inflict revenge on behalf of someone else. It s a pity he chose that way to revenge his sister. |
| savage | (of something bad or negative) very great; severe. A savage slap. |
| spite | Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty. He d think I was saying it out of spite. |
| spurn | An act of spurning. She spurned his advances. |
| swear | An offensive word used especially to express anger a swear word. Before God I swear I am innocent. |
| vendetta | A blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer’s family. He has accused the British media of pursuing a vendetta against him. |
| vengeful | Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge. A vengeful ex con. |
| vindictive | Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge- Shakespeare- M.R.Cohen. More vindictive than jealous love. |
| wreak | Avenge (someone who has been wronged. The environmental damage wreaked by ninety years of phosphate mining. |
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