All 11 Uses of
avenge
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He was avenging you on me as a Karamazov, I see that now.†
Chpt 4 *avenging = taking revenge
- By their being avenged?†
Chpt 5avenged = took revenge
- But what do I care for avenging them?†
Chpt 5avenging = taking revenge
- I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering.†
Chpt 5unavenged = of a wrong: still in need of revengestandard 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.
- I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong.†
Chpt 5
- Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature—that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance—and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?†
Chpt 5
- They will say this in despair, and their utterance will be a blasphemy which will make them more unhappy still, for man's nature cannot bear blasphemy, and in the end always avenges it on itself.†
Chpt 5avenges = takes revenge
- It was an impulse of madness and insanity, but also an impulse of nature, irresistibly and unconsciously (like everything in nature) avenging the violation of its eternal laws.†
Chpt 12avenging = taking revenge
- The weak-minded idiot, Smerdyakov, transformed into a Byronic hero, avenging society for his illegitimate birth—isn't this a romance in the Byronic style?†
Chpt 12
- A feeling of hatred was rankling in his heart, as though he meant to avenge himself on some one.†
Chpt 5
- If I break off with her now, she will avenge herself on me by ruining that scoundrel to-morrow at the trial, for she hates him and knows she hates him.†
Chpt 11
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.