1 to cheer for

2 to encourage

3 to boost the morale of

1 Hawaii, US state

1 might

2 formidable power

1 Venice

2 Venezia

1 might

2 formidable

1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game

2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine

1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people

1 to exercise power arbitrarily (idiom)

1 to inspire awe throughout the empire (idiom)

1 to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)