Avenge Definition

ə-vĕnj
avenged, avenges, avenging
verb
avenged, avenges, avenging
To inflict a punishment or penalty in return for; revenge.
Avenge a murder.
American Heritage
To get revenge for (an injury, wrong, etc.)
Webster's New World
To take vengeance on behalf of.
Avenged their wronged parents.
American Heritage
To take vengeance on behalf of, as for a wrong.
Webster's New World

To take vengeance (f); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

To avenge the murder of his brother.
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noun

A vengeance; a revenge.

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Other Word Forms of Avenge

Noun

Singular:
avenge
Plural:
avenges

Origin of Avenge

  • Middle English avengen from Old French avengier a- to (from Latin ad- ad–) vengier to vindicate (from Latin vindicāre to claim vindicate)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French avenger, from a- (“upon”) + vengier, from Latin vindicō.

    From Wiktionary

Avenge Sentence Examples

  • Forgive thy enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good.

  • His great expedition to Delhi was undertaken in 1756 in order to avenge himself on the Great Mogul for the recapture of Lahore.

  • When Minos, king of Crete, was on his way to attack Athens to avenge the murder of his son Androgeus, for which Aegeus was directly or indirectly responsible, he laid siege to Megara.

  • Other events of this reign were the parliament of Drogheda, held by Sir Edward Poynings, which gave the control of Irish legislation to the English council (" Poynings's Act " - the great bone of contention in the later days of Flood and Grattan), and the battle of Knockdoe, in which the earl of Kildare used the viceregal authority to avenge a private quarrel.

  • Sarah 's mother Catherine vows to avenge her daughter.

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