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: --
At the end of the film, the murderer is killed by his victim's avenging girlfriend.
She determined to avenge herself on the killer.
In the avenging mode, it punishes the individual who knowingly does wrong but refuses to admit that he or she has done so.
The religious farmers, long oppressed by a gang of ex-convicts, begin avenging themselves on anyone who collaborated with the bandits.
He was cast as a sociopathic biker, avenging his buddy's recent death.
After assuming rule over the city and avenging his father's death, the protagonist embarks on a quest to unify the land through conquest.
Sempronia was alleged by some to have contrived her husband's sudden death, thereby avenging her brothers, but there is no real evidence of her guilt.
To confound their avenging pursuers, they split up on the east shore of the lake.
Objectives were typically limited to such matters as recovering cattle, avenging some personal insult, or resolving disputes over segments of grazing land.
It was said to prevent the soul from avenging his death.
