exact revenge
Frequency: 6.25.9 per million words
to get revenge, often used in a formal or literary context
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Examples (10)
- The king vowed to exact his revenge on the traitors.
- After years of planning, she finally managed to exact her revenge against those who wronged her.
- They believed that only a harsh counter-attack would exact proper revenge for the invasion.
- He spent his entire life trying to exact revenge for his family's murder.
- The general warned his troops not to exact revenge on the surrendered enemy.
- In ancient myths, gods often exact terrible revenge on mortals who defy them.
- If you try to exact revenge, you might only perpetuate the cycle of violence.
- The wronged party sought to exact legal revenge through the courts.
- Despite the opportunity, she chose not to exact revenge, opting for forgiveness instead.
- The novel's protagonist is driven by a burning desire to exact revenge for his father's death.