Both Uses
vengeance
in
Into Thin Air
(Edited)
- The twenty-five pounds I'd shed in Nepal came back with a vengeance.
Chpt 21with a vengeance = with intensity
- Four of my teammates died not so much because Rob Hall's systems were faulty-indeed, nobody's were better-but because on Everest it is the nature of systems to break down with a vengeance.
Chpt 21 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.) -
(2)
(with a vengeance as in: with a vengeance) with intensity
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)