Both Uses of
avenge
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Your wife will only prove how she respects you by considering you incapable of opposing her happiness and avenging yourself on her for her new husband.†
Chpt 5.1avenging = taking revenge
- I never had a great hatred for anyone, I never particularly desired to avenge myself even, and that's a bad sign, a bad sign, a bad sign.†
Chpt 6.6 *avenge = take revenge for
Definitions:
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(1)
(avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Avengers is also used as a proper noun to refer to fictious superheroes or naval ship names. Avenger has also been used to describe classes of weaponry.