noun
- acts of retaliation or punishment in response to a wrong or injury
Usage: plural of revenge
verb
- inflicts punishment or harm in return for a wrong or injury
Usage: third person singular present tense of revenge
Examples
- The novel tells of bitter revenges between feuding families.
- History is full of bloody revenges that solved nothing.
- She revenges every slight against her family.
- The villain revenges his defeat by targeting innocent people.
- Sweet revenges rarely bring the satisfaction people expect.
- He revenges himself on those who wronged him.
- The cycle of revenges continued for generations.