All 5 Uses of
avenge
in
War and Peace
- We alone must avenge the blood of the just one....Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?†
Chpt 1 *avenge = take revenge for
- The Russian army is advancing against you to avenge the Austrian army of Ulm.†
Chpt 3
- Forgive thy enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good.†
Chpt 5
- And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity.†
Chpt 9avenged = took revenge
- In Petersburg and in the provinces at a distance from Moscow, ladies, and gentlemen in militia uniforms, wept for Russia and its ancient capital and talked of self-sacrifice and so on; but in the army which retired beyond Moscow there was little talk or thought of Moscow, and when they caught sight of its burned ruins no one swore to be avenged on the French, but they thought about their next pay, their next quarters, of Matreshka the vivandiere, and like matters.†
Chpt 12
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.