Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: avenge
IPA transcription: [əv'ɛndʒ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: revenge, avenge, retaliate
    Meaning: take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"
Usage examples
  • My brother, I hope, will avenge me."
  • He vowed to avenge himself for such a piece of injustice, and he kept his word.
  • A feeling of hatred was rankling in his heart, as though he meant to avenge himself on some one.
  • He determined, however, to avenge the fate of his companions, and to accomplish the death of Ali Baba.
  • "Nay, madame, the law is frequently powerless to effect this; all it can do is to avenge the wrong done."
  • It remains to be proved that society or any of its officers holds a commission from on high to avenge any supposed offence to Omnipotence, which is not also a wrong to our fellow-creatures.
  • It was not to save Odette Rider that he sent his note to Scotland Yard, but rather to avenge himself upon the man who had killed the only woman in the world who had touched his warped nature.
  • Ion was about to avenge himself upon Creusa, when, by means of the divine intervention of Apollo, his foster-mother, the Delphic priestess appeared on the scene, and explained the true relationship which existed between Creusa and Ion.
  • The suggestions of wounded pride, the instigations of irritated resentment, would be apt to carry the States against which the arms of the Union were exerted, to any extremes necessary to avenge the affront or to avoid the disgrace of submission.
  • The treachery of your sisters was well known to me, and to avenge your wrongs, as soon as I was liberated by your generous assistance, I called together several of my companions, fairies like myself, conveyed into your storehouses at Bagdad all the lading of your vessel, and afterwards sunk it.