Verboticism: Despervengeance

'I don't think that I can take it!'

DEFINITION: n., The deep feeling of despair, pain, and swelling need for revenge, which occurs when someone thoughtlessly trashes one of your pet projects. v., To cry out at the injustice of it all, especially if it is someone else's fault.

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Despervengeance

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: des/per/ven/juhs/ns

Sentence: When Molly found out that her brother destroyed her science project, she went into a fit of desparvengeance, blindly trashing everything in his room.

Etymology: DESPERVENGEANCE - noun - from DESPERATION (recklessness arising from despair) + VENGEANCE (infliction of injury, harm, or humiliation, on a person as pay back)

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