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Definitions for avenge
əˈvɛndʒavenge
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word avenge.
Princeton's WordNet
revenge, avenge, retaliateverb
take revenge for a perceived wrong
"He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"
Wiktionary
avengenoun
A vengeance; a revenge.
Etymology: From avengier, from a- + vengier, from vindicare.
avengeverb
To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
Etymology: From avengier, from a- + vengier, from vindicare.
avengeverb
To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
Etymology: From avengier, from a- + vengier, from vindicare.
Webster Dictionary
Avengeverb
to take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer
Avengeverb
to treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on
Avengeverb
to take vengeance
Avengenoun
vengeance; revenge
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Avenge
a-venj′, v.t. to vindicate: take vengeance on some one on account of some injury or wrong (with on, upon; of obsolete).—adj. Avenge′ful.—ns. Avenge′ment; Aveng′er, one who avenges:—fem. Aveng′eress. [O. Fr. avengier—L. vindicāre. See Vengeance.]
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The numerical value of avenge in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
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The numerical value of avenge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of avenge in a Sentence
Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
I lost my best friend eight months ago. She killed herself to save her friends and the injured around her, these are the difficult moments that we live, but I told you we gain strength from these martyrs. They are difficult moments that make you do more to avenge their death to make her dreams come true. The road she began, you finish.
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
I lost a lot of friends in this war and I resist to avenge their death, no matter the destruction in Kobani, it can be built again -- the important thing is to destroy this strange enemy that entered our land.
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- انتقامArabic
- отмъщавамBulgarian
- mstít, pomstítCzech
- rächenGerman
- vengarSpanish
- vengerFrench
- dìolScottish Gaelic
- megbosszulHungarian
- あだを討つ, 復讐, かたきを討つJapanese
- vindico, punio, vindicabo, persequor, ulciscorLatin
- rānaki, ngaki, rangarangaMāori
- zemścić sięPolish
- vingarPortuguese
- răzbunaRomanian
- отомстить, мститьRussian
- hämnaSwedish
- ÖcüTurkish
- بدلہUrdu
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