Avenge

Definition: Avenge

Avenge

Verb

1. Take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "avenge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Avenge \A*venge"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Avenged; Avenging.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Avenge

Revenge

Verb: revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger.

Crosswords: Avenge

Redeem yourself or, if you prefer, avenge yourself. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

I don't expect you to understand, you're English, but i'm half Greek and Greek women like Elektra always avenge their loved ones! (For Your Eyes Only; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

If you get killed, we take the rifle and avenge you. (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: William Roberts; Walter Newman)

Parental Observation: Avenge yourself; live long enough to be a problem to your children. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Avenge the Belgrano (reference)

• Blind Justice: A Murder, a Scandal, and a Brother's Search to Avenge His Sister's Death (reference)

• Comrades, Avenge Us (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Vance Arnold and the Avenge 1963 [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Avenge December 7 / Bernard Perlin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Avenge. Credit: Library of Congress.

We vow to avenge Attica. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Jean Valjean had gone to the barricade to avenge himself.

Or perchance he was some Achilles, who had nourished his wrath apart, and had now come to avenge or rescue his Patroclus.

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Civil Liberties

Pakistan

The killing may have been ordered to avenge the killing of Agha Sultani, an Iranian Shi'a teacher who was killed in Karachi by unknown assailants on January 20. Sectarian rioting in Hangu, a small city in the NWFP on March 1 resulted in at least 10 deaths. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Persons pay the police to humiliate their opponents and to avenge their personal grievances. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

Local commentators believe the killing to be the work of Sipah-e-Mohammad, a Shi'a Muslim extremist group, and say it may have been ordered to avenge the killing of Agha Sultani, an Iranian Shi'a teacher who was killed in Karachi by unknown assailants on January 20. Following the killing of Inayatullah and three other clerics, a combination of police, paramilitary, and military forces were dispatched in an attempt to control a mob of Sunni Muslim students that reacted to the killing by setting several vehicles and businesses on fire. (references)

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Expressions using "avenge": avenge oneself ♦ avenge oneself on. Additional references.

Albanian

zhgjakësohem, shpagim (disbursement, pay, requital, retaliation, revenge, visitation), marr hakun (fix, get even with, pay back, pay off, revenge). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إنتقم ل, ‏ثأر (get one's own back, requite, retaliate, retaliation, revenge, tit for tat, vengeance). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отмъщавам за (vindicate). (various references)

Chinese 

报复 (Avenged, Avenging, reprisal, retaliate, Retaliated, Retaliating, retaliation, retaliatory), 復仇 (vengeance). (various references)

Czech

pomstít. (various references)

Dutch

wreken (avenge oneself), wraak nemen (avenge oneself). (various references)

Esperanto

venĝi (avenge oneself). (various references)

Faeroese

hevna (avenge oneself). (various references)

Farsi 

کینه جوءی کردن(از), تلافی کردن (Counter, Pay, Reciprocate, Recoup, Reprisal, Retaliate), خونخواهی کردن (Revenge), دادگیری کردن . (various references)

Finnish

kostaa (avenge oneself, revenge oneself on a person for, take revenge on a person for). (various references)

French

venger (avenge oneself). (various references)

Frisian

wreke (avenge oneself). (various references)

German

rächen (avenge oneself, revenge, to revenge), ahnden (punish). (various references)

Greek 

εκδικούμαι (requite, retaliate, revenge, wreak vengeance). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת� קם (get even, take revenge, wreak vengeance), ל� קום (get back, get square, hit back, retaliate, revenge, take revenge, wreak). (various references)

Hungarian

megbosszul (revenge, to avenge, to requite, to revenge, to wreak), elégtételt vesz (get even with, to avenge). (various references)

Indonesian

membalaskan, membalas dendam, membalas (answer, repay, reply, requite). (various references)

Irish

agair. (various references)

Italian

vendicare (pay back, revenge). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

討つ　 (to attack, to avenge), 討つ (to attack, to avenge), 射つ (to attack, to avenge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うつ (to attack, to avenge, to defeat, to destroy, to hit, to punish, to strike). (various references)

Manx

goaill cooilleen er, cooilleeney (achieve, achievement, acquit, acquittal, compensate, compensation, consummate, consummation, execute, fulfil, fulfilment, punishment, satisfaction, satisfy, vengeance). (various references)

Norwegian

hevne. (various references)

Papiamen

venga (avenge oneself). (various references)

Pig Latin

avengeay

Portuguese

vingar-se (revenge). (various references)

Romanian

rãzbuna (retaliate, revenge, slake), pedepsi (amerce, castigate, chasten, correct, discipline, penalize, punish, scourge, serve out, trounce, wreak). (various references)

Russian 

мстить (avenged, requite, revenge). (various references)

Scottish

dìol (pay, render, satisfy), dìoghail , dìol. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svetiti se (go gunning for). (various references)

Spanish

vengar (avenge oneself, revenge). (various references)

Swedish

hämnas (retaliate, revenge, revenge oneself), hämna (avenge oneself). (various references)

Thai

แก้เผ็�". (various references)

Turkish

acısını çıkarmak (be revenged, compansate oneself for, get equal with smb., get even with, get one's own back, have one's revenge, pay back, pay off, pay out, reciprocate, requite, serve smb. out, take revenge for), intikamını almak (be revenged, retaliate, revenge, revenge on, take one's revenge, vindicate), öcünü almak (be revenged, get even with, get one's own back, pay out, revenge, revenge on, take one's revenge). (various references)

Ukrainian

мстити (requite, revenge). (various references)

Welsh

dial cam, dial (revenge, vengeance). (various references)

exsequor, infenso, poenis, puniat, puniens, punientur, punietur, punio, punirent, puniri, punitionem, ulciscamur, ulciscar, ulciscatur, ulciscendum, ulciscens, ulciscere, ulciscerer, ulcisceretur, ulciscetur, ulcisci, ulciscimini, ulciscitur, ulti, ultus, vindica, vindicabat, vindicabit, vindicabitur, vindicabo, vindicabor, vindicamus, vindicans, vindicare, vindicarent, vindicaret, vindicari, vindicas, vindicaverunt, vindicavit, vindicet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "avenge": avenged, avenger, avengers, avenges. (additional references)

Words ending with "avenge": scavenge. (additional references)

Words containing "avenge": scavenged, scavenger, scavengers, scavenges, unavenged. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Avenge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aene, Atengdem, avange, avante, avence, aveng, avense, averge, aveugle, avine, avvago, Ekenge, evenge, hadengue, Masvengo, ravenge, vange, Xavante. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: geneva.

-1 letter: agene, ganev, veena, vegan, venae, venge.

-2 letters: agee, eave, even, gaen, gane, gave, gene, nave, neve, vane, vang, vena.

-3 letters: age, ane, ave, eng, eve, gae, gan, gee, gen, nae, nag, nee, van, vee, veg.

-4 letters: ae, ag, an, en, na, ne.

+1 letter: avenged, avenger, avenges, engrave, evangel, genevas, ventage.

+2 letters: agentive, avengers, engraved, engraver, engraves, envisage, evangels, negative, scavenge, vegetant, ventages.

+3 letters: agentives, beavering, bereaving, deleaving, elevating, engravers, envisaged, envisages, evangelic, grapevine, graveness, grievance, laveering, leavening, negatived, negatives, reengrave, revealing, reweaving, scavenged, scavenger, scavenges, unavenged, unaverage, vagueness, vengeance, villenage, vinegared.

+4 letters: changeover, eigenvalue, enervating, evanescing, evangelism, evangelist, evangelize, generative, governable, governance, grapevines, gravestone, grievances, leavenings, leveraging, longleaves, negatively, overeating, overmanage, ravagement, reengraved, reengraves, savageness, scavengers, vegetarian, vegetating, vegetation, venenating, venerating, vengeances, vernissage, villenages, wavelength.