Synonyms for vengeance
ˈvɛn dʒənsvengeance

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1. vengeancenoun

   Synonyms:
   retribution, retaliation, revenge, reprisal

   Antonyms:
   reconciliation

2. vengeancenoun

   Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.

   Synonyms:
   retaliation, revenge, retribution, reprisal

   Antonyms:
   reconciliation

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. vengeance

   Revenge is the act of making return for an injury done to oneself by doing injury to another person. Retaliation and revenge are personal and often bitter. Retaliation may be partial; revenge is meant to be complete, and may be excessive. Vengeance, which once meant an indignant vindication of justice, now signifies the most furious and unsparing revenge. Revenge emphasizes more the personal injury in return for which it is inflicted, vengeance the ill desert of those upon whom it is inflicted. A requital is strictly an even return, such as to quit one of obligation for what has been received, and even if poor or unworthy is given as complete and adequate. Avenging and retribution give a solemn sense of exact justice, avenging being more personal in its infliction, whether by God or man, and retribution the impersonal visitation of the doom of righteous law. Compare AVENGE; HATRED; REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   avenging, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge

   Antonyms:
   compassion, excuse, forgiveness, grace, mercy, pardon, pardon, pity, reconciliation

   Preposition:
   To take revenge upon the enemy, for the injury.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. vengeance

   Synonyms:
   retribution, retaliation, revenge

   Antonyms:
   forgiveness, pardon, condonation, amnesty, grace, remission, absolution, oblivion, indulgence, reprieve

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. vengeance, retribution, paybacknoun

   the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

   "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"

   Synonyms:
   requital, payback, retribution

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1. • Retaliation

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. vengeancenoun

   Synonyms:
   avengement, retribution

2. vengeancenoun

   Synonyms:
   revenge, retaliation

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1. vengeancenoun

   Synonyms:
   retribution, avengement, revenge, nemesis, retaliation

   Associated words:
   wreak

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1. List of paraphrases for "vengeance":

   revenge, vendetta, retribution, retaliation, vindictiveness, payback, retaliatory, reprisal

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How to use vengeance in a sentence?

1. Clarence Darrow:

   Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

2. Veryan Khan:

   Ever since the Charlie Hebdo attacks ‘avenged’ the prophet, there has been a growing trend to justify terrorist acts, such as this murder, by claiming it was an act of vengeance, just this week in Sinai, Egypt, ISIS released a video titled, ‘We Swear We Will Revenge.’.

3. Mark Grant:

   I think this is a real act of vengeance by the ECB and the EU and I think it's a shame, you saw the stock market, which had been up over 100 as soon as this hit the wires, drop down to a slight positive ; Bonds go from being down a point to up a point.

4. Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold":

   But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

5. Homer:

   At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.