avenge
/əˈvɛnd͡ʒ/ verbe C1En français : venger, se venger
- 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· They avenged the wrong done to them.
- To revenge oneself (on or upon someone).
He/she/it avenges · Prétérit avenged · Participe passé avenged · Forme en -ing avenging
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Dans la bibliothèque
A Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury.
She ran off to her father, to be avenged on her Brother, and spitefully accused him of having, as a boy, made use of that which belonged only to girls.
Led on by some rudimentary aspirations towards right, and encouraged by the judicious stimulation of an occasional ten-pound note sent to him by devious methods, he has once or twice given me advance information which has been of value—that highest value which anticipates and prevents rather than avenges crime.
But, by Heaven, if the worst has happened we’ll avenge him!”
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