• n.
    ⦿the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
    lexical concept
  • For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge
  • Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord
  • he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him
  • the swiftness of divine retribution

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:payback
  2. enl:retribution
  3. enl:vengeance
wn:interlingual indexili:i41868

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
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  • paybackvengeance
  • paybackretributionvengeance