All 4 Uses of
avenge
in
Gone with the Wind
- And anyone who avenged her would be hanged by the Yankees, hanged without benefit of trial by judge and jury.†
Chpt 4.37 *avenged = took revenge
- Shame and fear sped her homeward and, in her mind, Archie with his patriarch's beard assumed the proportions of an avenging angel straight from the pages of the Old Testament.†
Chpt 5.53avenging = taking revenge
- Because of your obstinacy, you may get yourself into a situation where your gallant fellow townsmen will be forced to avenge you by stringing up a few darkies.†
Chpt 4.38
- You would still have run yourself into danger and he would have had to avenge you.†
Chpt 4.47
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.