revenged
past simple and past participle ofrevenge
revenge
verb[T]
uk/rɪˈvendʒ/us/rɪˈvendʒ/toharmsomeone as apunishmentforharmthat they have done to you:
to revenge adeath/defeat/injustice
Theredteamrevenged themselvesontheblueteambywinningthesemifinal.
Synonym
avengeformal
Compare
retaliate
Revenge and vengefulness
- avenge
- avenger
- bite
- bite back (atsomeone/something)
- don't get mad, get evenidiom
- eye
- fix
- medicine
- mind
- pay
- paysomeone/somethingback
- reprisal
- retaliate
- retaliation
- retaliatory
- tit for tat
- two can play at that gameidiom
- vengeance
- vengeful
- vengefully
Examplesofrevenged
revenged
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Therefore, they haverevengedthemselves in according them appreciably worse economic treatment than they have meted out to other countries.
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I hope that the old feeling of a desire to berevengedupon those who have offended against society is fast disappearing.
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There he found her sister was dead andrevengedeveryone who caused her death.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She is betrayed by the second who cowers before the voice of popular racism and, finally, continents away, isrevengedby the third.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She declines, but swears that she will berevengedeventually.
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- the World Trade Organization
- the-world-trade-organization
- the World Wide Web
- the-world-wide-web
- the worm turns
- the-worm-turns
- the worse for drink
- the-worse-for-drink
- the worse for wear
- the-worse-for-wear
- the writing is on the wall
- the-writing-is-on-the-wall
- the written word
- the-written-word
- the WRNS
- the-wrns
- the wrong/other side of the tracks
- the-wrong-other-side-of-the-tracks
- the WSPA
- the-wspa
- the WWF
- the-wwf
- the X factor
- the-x-factor