avenge

Speech parts

1. avenge - Noun

2. avenge - Verb

Meaning

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

To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.

To take vengeance.

Vengeance; revenge.

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? Eleanor Roosevelt

If I advance; follow me! If I retreat; kill me! If I die; avenge me! Benito Mussolini

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it. Cesare Pavese

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven. Augustine of Hippo

Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us. Jacques de Molay

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. Niccolò Machiavelli

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