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

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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.

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1. vengeance

   Synonyms:
   retribution, retaliation, revenge

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

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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. 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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1. Niccolo Machiavelli:

   People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

2. 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.

3. Elise Stefanik:

   Good riddance to the Worst Governor in America, under Andrew Cuomo’s failed leadership, New Yorkers suffered corruption scandal after corruption scalndal, illegal criminal acts committed on the taxpayers’ dime, and unhinged political vengeance and retaliation creating a toxic political culture systemic in Albany.

4. Fatima Bhutto:

   There was no moment of reflection, no introspection, only a knee-jerk call for vengeance, in Pakistan, blood will always have blood.

5. Jeb Bush:

   So, here's the deal. My wife is a Mexican-American. She's an American by choice, she loves this country as much as anybody in this room, and she wants a secure border. But she wants to embrace the traditional American values that make us special and make us unique. We're at a crossroads right now. Are we going to take the Reagan approach, the hopeful optimistic approach, the approach that says that, you come to our country legally, you pursue your dreams with a vengeance, you create opportunities for all of us? Or the Donald Trump approach?