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vengeance

/ven-juhns/US // ˈvɛn dʒəns //UK // (ˈvɛndʒəns) //

复仇,报复,报仇,复仇行动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge: But have you the right to vengeance?
    • : an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble: to take one's vengeance.
    • : the desire for revenge: a man full of vengeance.
    • : Obsolete. hurt; injury.
    • : Obsolete. curse; imprecation.

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Examples

  • “Worry is back with a vengeance,” said Grant Steadman, president of North America for Dunnhumby, in a press release.

  • In that pocket, tree limbs snapped with a vengeance, creating 100,000 power outages.

  • Ezio Auditore’s initial arc is one of vengeance, but we see him grow beyond that.

  • A strict lockdown successfully contained the disease, but it came back with a vengeance in the fall.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • He could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.

  • The teeth of beasts, and scorpions, and serpents, and the sword taking vengeance upon the ungodly unto destruction.

  • And they sought out all iniquities, till vengeance came upon them, and put an end to all their sins.

  • Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.

  • If he had set out to arouse emotion in these two sluggish breasts he had done so with a vengeance.