avenge
IPA: ʌvˈɛndʒ
noun
- (archaic) An act of vengeance; a revenge.
verb
- (transitive) To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
- (reflexive) To revenge oneself (on or upon someone).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To take vengeance.
- (transitive, archaic) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
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Examples of "avenge" in Sentences
- The men avenged the criminal.
- The motive of the murder was the avenge.
- They avenged the slaughter of thy people.
- He helped the Avengers vanquish the Wizard.
- So the Meccans resolved to avenge the bloodshed.
- In the epilogue he tries applying for the Avengers.
- The Avengers manage to stop his rampage in the end.
- The Avengers charter goes to the character of the Avengers.
- “Only a burning desire to clear my name and avenge my mentor.”
- Alongside the Avengers, he battled the Brethren and the Collector.
- Firebird accompanied the Avengers to the dimension of the Cat People.
- The Taliban has claimed responsibility for some of the attacks, saying they were carried out to "avenge" the NATO airstrike and CIA drone missiles in Pakistan's lawless tribal region.
- LUI: You know, Chris, the statement you were bringing up in your report, the official using the word "avenge" -- we don't commonly see that in a statement coming from a government agency or from an official.
- The Lord uses words without anxiety as to the misuse of them by such as do not search after his will in them; and the word avenge may be simply retained from the parable without its special meaning therein; yet it suggests a remark or two.
- ` ` It's the first time out this year, trying to kind of avenge a loss at the Fiesta Bowl last year, so there was a lot of preparation put in to come out and play well, '' said Bradford, referring to a 48-28 loss to West Virginia this January.
- Public anger is simmering over the air incursions and an dramatic escalation of CIA drone strikes against militants in Pakistan's tribal areas, and a Taliban spokesman vowed that it would "avenge" those attacks with more strikes on "foreign forces" in Pakistan, Reuters reported.