vengeance
英 ['ven(d)?(?)ns]
美['v?nd??ns]
- n. 復仇；報復；報仇
英英釋意
- 1. 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"