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avenge English

Meaning avenge meaning

What does avenge mean?

avenge

— verb (= revenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong He wants to avenge the murder of his brother

Synonyms avenge synonyms

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avenge English » English

revenge retaliate take revenge requite take vengeance vindicate avenge oneself take vengeance on revenge oneself punish pay back get even with attack wreak vengeance wreak venge strike back revevge revenge oneself upon retribution retribute redeem pay out hit back give tit for tat get revenge get back at someone get ertaliate destroy defeat countercharge counterattack

Topics avenge topics

What do people use avenge to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Revenge

Conjugation avenge conjugation

How do you conjugate avenge?

avenge · verb

Examples avenge examples

How do I use avenge in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He killed him to avenge his dead father.
The role of politics is not to avenge what has happened, but to ensure that it doesn't happen again.
He vowed to avenge his friend's death.
Who will avenge the death of Karl?
I'm going to avenge my brother.
Tom wants to avenge his brother's death.

Movie subtitles

I will find you, Zero. to avenge Clovis!
I have come to avenge thee. and perhaps do some ravaging?
Jupiter delivers the lightning on Ulysses' ship to avenge himself.
To avenge Polyphemus, the seagod Neptune steers the ship to sea.
If somebody, my lady, would do you wrong at Attila's court, King Attilla shall know how to avenge you!
Huns, avenge your dead!
Avenge your dead, Huns, and the royal child!
The Senate has decreed that you both shall rule Rome together. and that Antony shall avenge the death of Caesar upon the traitors. and shall punish Egypt.
It is time to avenge the deaths of our forefathers.
Avenge us!
I shall rise to avenge the suffering of Russia.
To avenge the cowardly murder of his brother Jesse.
But I will avenge the murder.
You could avenge him by that.
You must avenge our fallen.
Preston Sturges contributed a script that had a doctor treating his maniacal assistant with an invisibility drug, following which the two journey to Russia to avenge the killing of the scientist's relatives during the revolution.
Every British soldier would give his life to avenge the Chukoti massacre. But at this moment, it's impossible.
I intended to avenge the crimes of this monstrous tyrant!
Want to avenge Gavin's death, don't you?
He was to be fired and now he wanted to avenge himself.
He'll want to avenge himself.
Avenge himself?
If you harm him, you Norman dog every Saxon in England will avenge his blood.
If I acted this way, it was not only to avenge my brother.
Come, my son, my flesh, avenge my shame.
Forward, run and avenge.
Let her avenge her son's death!
It's not me who should avenge Gunpei.
I will spurn my adversaries and avenge my enemies.
Let her avenge her son's death.
Now he'll avenge life.
I wanted to avenge.
Avenge me. as my son would.
Someone will avenge me. Someone will yet come forward.
It was the only way left for me to avenge my father.
We'll avenge Sekigahara.
We, the ones that are loyal to the memory of our queen will avenge her.
Do you want to avenge yourself?
If you are Cartouche, let me kiss you. You avenge us, the poor.
Bebo, you must avenge my grandson.

News and current affairs

Iraq stands as a reminder of America's furious desire to avenge the terrorist attacks of September, 2001 and hurt punish even those unconnected with the perpetrators.
LONDON - US President Barack Obama has vowed to avenge the murder of J. Christopher Stevens, America's former ambassador to Libya.
There was also, at least in the US, the desire to avenge the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, as well as geopolitical interests.
But I want France to avenge its defeat at the last World Cup in Seville, not its defeat at Verdun.
The war in Iraq was misconceived from the start, because it was an attempt to avenge the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by invading and occupying a country that had no part in them.
But, as a Syrian tweeted to me, what the world hears Obama saying is that the US will use force to avenge the deaths of two American journalists, but will stand by while 200,000 Syrians are slaughtered.
The ISI knew perfectly well that India would not go to war with Pakistan to avenge the killing of its diplomatic personnel.
The Lebanese front may ignite if Hezbollah seeks to avenge Mughniyah's death, or simply as a result of a knee-jerk reaction to a provocation, as in 2006.

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