Avenge: Definition and part of speech

Avenge

  1. n. Vengeance; revenge.
  2. v. t. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
  3. v. t. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
  4. v. i. To take vengeance.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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