AVENGE
\ɐvˈɛnd͡ʒ], \ɐvˈɛndʒ], \ɐ_v_ˈɛ_n_dʒ]\
Definitions of AVENGE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(B.) To inflict punishment for.
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AVENGEMENT.
By Daniel Lyons
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To take vengeance or satisfaction for.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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To take satisfaction for an injury by inflicting suffering on the injuring party; to vindicate the just or a just cause by the defeat of the adversary; a term now restricted to the taking of just punishment, while revenge, originally synonymous, is the inflicting of pain or evil, maliciously, in an illegal manner. In the passive, to have or receive just satisfaction, by the punishment of the offender.
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To execute vengeance. See Vengeance.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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