Sample Sentences for
avenge
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    They want to avenge last year's loss to the team.
    avenge = get revenge for
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    "We will avenge him," they whispered.  (source)
    avenge = take revenge
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    He had come here not to avenge himself but to answer a question.  (source)
    avenge = take revenge for
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    "Wouldst thou avenge thyself on the innocent babe?" whispered she.  (source)
    avenge = take revenge for
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    That stone of all the treasure I name unto myself, and I will be avenged on anyone who finds it and withholds it.  (source)
    avenged = taken revenge for
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    And the ones we actually killed ...do they believe they're avenging their own deaths?†  (source)
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    Ever since we walked into this room you've been behaving like a self-appointed public avenger.  (source)
    avenger = someone who takes revenge
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    Mostly he read the Avengers and the X-Men.†  (source)
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    Meanwhile, the young man had slung on to his person a decidedly shabby upper garment, and, erecting himself before the blaze, looked down on me from the corner of his eyes, for all the world as if there were some mortal feud unavenged between us.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unavenged means not and reverses the meaning of avenged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.†  (source)
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    18:47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She avengeth" in older English, today we say "She avenges."
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    His cheeks grew tight with fury at the thought that he had just been duped into humiliation by a man who was almost the same age as he was and still only a captain, and he swung upon the chaplain avengingly with a look of such murderous antagonism that the chaplain began to tremble.†  (source)
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    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.  (source)
    avenge = take revenge
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