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take revenge for a perceived wrong

avenge = take revenge for

avenge = get revenge for

You are the representative of justice here, and it is for justice to avenge those she has been unable to protect.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Wouldst thou avenge thyself on the innocent babe?
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- The Scarlet Letter
I felt that the pale young gentleman's blood was on my head, and that the Law would avenge it.
Dickens, Charles -- Great Expectations
This very night I will avenge the death of my two daughters!
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

avenge = take revenge for

Ever since we walked into this room you've been behaving like a self-appointed public avenger.
Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men

avenger = someone who takes revenge

avenged = revenge will be taken

I would sail east myself for a year and a day to find my father's friends or to learn of their deaths and avenge them if I could.
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader

avenge = take revenge

He had come here not to avenge himself but to answer a question.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

avenge = take revenge for

"Wouldst thou avenge thyself on the innocent babe?" whispered she.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

avenge = take revenge for

I felt that the pale young gentleman's blood was on my head, and that the Law would avenge it.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

avenge = take revenge

avenge = take revenge

"It has avenged thee," answered Hester Prynne.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

avenged = taken revenge for

If that has not avenged me, I can do no more!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

avenged = taken revenge for

Why hast thou not avenged thyself on me?
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

avenged = taken revenge for

At exactly midnight, Colonel Matheny, piloting the lead plane, Dumbo the Avenger, broke radio silence.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

avenger = someone who takes revenge

Roger Chillingworth, however, was inclined to be hardly, if at all, less satisfied with the aspect of affairs, which Providence—using the avenger and his victim for its own purposes, and, perchance, pardoning, where it seemed most to punish—had substituted for his black devices.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

avenger = someone who takes revenge

Unable to accomplish this, he nevertheless, as a matter of principle, continued his habits of social familiarity with the old man, and thus gave him constant opportunities for perfecting the purpose to which—poor forlorn creature that he was, and more wretched than his victim—the avenger had devoted himself.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

avenger = someone who takes revenge

It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado

avenger = someone who takes revenge for a perceived wrong

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