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avenge
/ əˈvɛndʒ /
verb
- usually tr to inflict a punishment in retaliation for (harm, injury, etc) done to (a person or persons); take revenge for or on behalf of
to avenge a murdered friend
to avenge a crime
Usage
Derived Forms
- aˈvenger, noun
Other Words From
- a·venge·ful adjective
- a·veng·er noun
- a·veng·ing·ly adverb
- un·a·venged adjective
- un·a·veng·ing adjective
- un·a·veng·ing·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of avenge1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Bill Murray stars as the titular character, a wacky oceanographer who sets out to avenge the death of his partner Esteban by stalking the alleged shark behind the crime.
We lose our humanity, the space to be bereft, the chance to avenge and honor our ancestors, to fight for their legacy to live among everyday consciousness.
In the aftermath of a national tragedy, we are supposed to come together and say “never forget,” to agree on the heroes and the villains, on who was at fault and how their culpability must be avenged.
The first five episodes of the series found Assane avenging his father’s death—and the next five bring us right back into the action with the protagonist doing whatever it takes to protect the ones he loves most.
Using Lupin’s tactics, Assane sets out to avenge an act of savage cruelty against his late father.
Protestors chanted “with our blood and our souls, we will avenge you, oh martyr.”
Within days of 9/11 he was talking about a “crusade” to avenge the blow, without realizing how freighted that word was.
So I think that was personally felt too, my personal desire to avenge my own laziness and mistakes in life.
Marius is a Roman soldier whose father is killed and he goes to avenge the death.
Now, 13 years later, Stan's little brother Matthew is back to avenge his death.
But it should not be by embracing revenge through the treasons, whose arms were extended to receive and to avenge him.
It is their fate to experience this, as it becomes the task of the historian to avenge their memories.
How boldly he acted during the Haymarket tragedy—publicly advised the use of violence to avenge the capitalist conspiracy.
Certain of the fate of my grandfather, but lacking the energy to avenge him, he made to me this revelation on his death-bed.
Then many of the men fell to 112 talking, & they said: Eirik the Earl will not fight to avenge his father.
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