Vengeance /(?)/

Venge·ance

Vengeance

n.
  1. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
    To me belongeth vengeance and recompense.
    — Deut. xxxii. 35.
    To execute fierce vengeance on his foes.
  2. Harm; mischief. [Obs.]

Phrases & Compounds
What a vengeance
what! -- emphatically.
With a vengeance
with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance.