0 past simple and past participle of avenge
1 to do harm to or punish the person responsible for something bad done to you or your family or friends in order to achieve a fair situation:
She determined to avenge herself on the killer.
At the end of the film, the murderer is killed by his victim's avenging girlfriend.
Certain acts of heroism can meaningfully be called moral acts when there is a symbolized triumph, where, for example, innocent victims are being avenged.
I at any rate, am all for surviving, and the fact that we may be avenged has very little interest for me.
Unfortunately, avenging the dead means more dead, and they then call out to be avenged as well.
They are powered by a strong feeling of wounded nationalism, with the xenophobic conviction that they are the superior race and that their grievances have not been avenged.
But there is also, among some people, a feeling that the dead must be endlessly avenged and that any accommodation with the opposing view would betray those who have died.
They had also threatened to leave the island en masse with the commissioner, unless the captain avenged their wrongs.
He does not want his death to be avenged.
He avenged this miss with a three-point play to open the second half, and another basket on the following possession.
