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v. To inflict a punishment or penalty in return for; revenge: avenge a murder.

v. To take vengeance on behalf of: avenged their wronged parents.

n. A vengeance; a revenge.

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

v. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.

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

v. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.

verb-intransitive. To take vengeance.

n. Vengeance; revenge.

To vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on the wrong-doer; execute justice or vengeance on behalf of: with a person as object.

To take satisfaction for, by pain or punishment inflicted on the injuring party; deal punishment on account of: with a thing as object.

To take revenge on; treat or deal with revengefully.

Synonyms Avenge, Revenge. Until lately these words were used with little or no difference of meaning (see quotations under each). Avenge is now restricted to the taking of just punishment or the vindication of justice, and revenge to the infliction of pain or evil to gratify resentful feelings, or the desire of retaliation for some real or fancied wrong. Poetic use sometimes returns to the earlier freedom in the meaning of avenge. see revenge, n.

To execute vengeance; inflict retaliatory pain or injury on a wrong-doer.

n. Revenge; retaliation.

n. Punishment; vengeance taken.

v. take revenge for a perceived wrong

"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."

avenged    avenges    avenging   

penalise    penalize    punish   

get even    get back   

revenge    vengeance    vindicate    retribute    get back at    retaliate    spite    take revenge   

menge    revenge    wenge   

vengeful    white-hot    tutelary    unforgiving    righteous    wrathful    homicidal    ungovernable    incarnate    pitiless