Executing vengeance; taking satisfaction for an injury by the punishment of the offender; vindicating.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Revenge Roget’s Thesaurus §919
N. revenge, revengement, vengeance, avengement, avengeance|, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation, day of reckoning, rancor, vindictiveness, implacability, malevolence, ruthlessness, avenger, vindicator, nemesis, eumenides
V. revenge, avenge, vindicate, take one's revenge, have one's revenge, breathe revenge, breathe vengeance, wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger, have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle, keep the wound green, harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling, bear malice, rankle, rankle in the breast
Adj. revengeful, vengeful, vindictive, rancorous, pitiless, ruthless, rigorous, avenging, unforgiving, unrelenting, inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable, relentless, remorseless, aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus, rankling, immitigable
Phr. manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum, dies irae dies illa, "in high vengeance there is noble scorn", inhumanum verbum est ultio, malevolus animus abditos dentes habet, "now infidel i have thee on the hip"
King James Bible KJV Bible
Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible
3 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “Avenging”
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
