avenge

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French avengier, from a- (“upon”) + vengier, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vindicō.

Noun

avenge (plural avenges)

1. A vengeance; a revenge.

Verb

avenge (third-person singular simple present avenges, present participle avenging, simple past and past participle avenged)

1. (transitive) To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

   to avenge the murder of his brother

   • Milton

     Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To take vengeance.
   • Template:RQ:Authorized Version

     Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

3. (archaic) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
   • Bishop Hall

     thy judgment in avenging thine enemies

Synonyms

• (take vengeance): bewreak, get back at, retaliate, take revenge
• (treat revengefully): spite
• See also Thesaurus:avenge

Translations

to take vengeance for

• Arabic: اِنْتَقَمَ (intaqama)
• Armenian: վրեժխնդիր լինել (vrežxndir linel)
• Aromanian: arãzgan
• Belarusian: по́мсціць impf (pómscicʹ), мсціць impf (mscicʹ)
• Bulgarian: отмъщавам (bg) (otmǎštavam), мъстя́ (bg) impf (mǎstjá)
• Burmese: လက်စားချေ (my) (lakca:hkye), ကလဲ့စားချေ (my) (ka.lai.ca:hkye)
• Catalan: venjar (ca)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 報仇／报仇 (zh) (bàochóu), 报仇 (zh) (bàochóu), 復仇／复仇 (zh) (fùchóu), 复仇 (zh) (fùchóu)

• Czech: pomstít se, mstít se
• Danish: hævne
• Dutch: wreken (nl), wraak nemen
• Finnish: kostaa (fi)
• French: venger (fr)
• Friulian: svindicâ
• Galician: vingar
• Georgian: შურისძიება (šurisʒieba)
• German: rächen (de), ahnden (de)
• Greek: εκδικούμαι (el) (ekdikoúmai)
• Hindi: बदला लेना (badlā lenā), दण्ड देना (daṇḍ denā)
• Hungarian: megbosszul (hu)
• Icelandic: hefna (is)
• Irish: díoltas a imirt ar, éiric a bhaint amach i/de
• Italian: vendicare (it)
• Japanese: 復讐をする (ja) (ふくしゅうをする, fukushū o suru), かたきを討つ (かたきをうつ, kataki o utsu), あだを討つ (あだをうつ, ada o utsu)
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• Korean: 복수하다 (ko) (boksuhada)
• Latin: vindicō, ulcīscor, persequor (la), pūniō
• Macedonian: одмаздува impf (odmazduva), одмазди pf (odmazdi)
• Maori: rānaki, ngaki (mi), rangaranga, ngaki mate
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hevne

• Occitan: venjar (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: мьстити impf (mĭstiti)

• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: mścić się impf, zemścić się pf
• Portuguese: vingar (pt)
• Romanian: răzbuna (ro)
• Russian: мсти́ть (ru) impf (mstítʹ), отомсти́ть (ru) pf (otomstítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìol
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осветити се pf

  Roman: osvetiti se (sh) pf

• Sicilian: vinnicari (scn), minnicari (scn)
• Slovak: mstiť sa impf, pomstiť sa pf
• Slovene: maščevati se
• Spanish: vengar (es)
• Swedish: hämnas (sv)
• Thai: แก้แค้น (th) (gɛ̂ɛ-kɛ́ɛn)
• Ukrainian: мсти́ти impf (mstýty)
• Venetian: vendegar, vendicar
• Vietnamese: phục thù (vi), trả thù (vi)
• Walloon: vindjî (wa), rivindjî (wa), raveur (wa), rawè (wa)
• Welsh: dial am

to treat revengefully

• Latin: vindico, ulciscor, persequor (la), punio
• Polish: zemścić się
• Portuguese: vingar (pt)
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• Romanian: răzbuna (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìol

Anagrams

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