* THE DICTIONARY vengeance___________ (BUTTON) LOOK IT UP vengeance [audio-yrxp37.gif] vengeance: some type of payback in order to settle the score. Be careful, though, because you might inspire someone to take vengeance on Vengeance is a downward spiral of pain and betrayal, one person hurting another, who hurts another, and so on. You might demand vengeance if “with a vengeance” means to do something with a lot of intensity. Vengeance shares roots with the word revenge, and someone who wants revenge usually pursues it with a vengeance. DEFINITIONS OF: vengeance “Vengeance is mine” “"For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look “he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him”