0 present 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.
If you are to continue avenging every crime, then you will have crime for infinity.
Prosecuting counsel is not an avenging angel; he is an instrument of justice.
My justice and my avenging fury are even-handed.
The selling off of our public enterprises, however, which has led to a disastrously deficient public rapid transit network, is also now avenging itself.
I had to use considerable influence to prevent some of the outraged people avenging themselves upon those two firms.
Unfortunately, avenging the dead means more dead, and they then call out to be avenged as well.
To confound their avenging pursuers, they had split up.
It was said to prevent the soul from avenging his death.
