Both Uses of
avenge
in
Notes from the Underground
- I returned home feeling that I was fully avenged for everything.†
Chpt 2.1 *avenged = took revenge
- I came to you, meaning to thrash one of them, an officer; but I didn't succeed, I didn't find him; I had to avenge the insult on someone to get back my own again; you turned up, I vented my spleen on you and laughed at you.†
Chpt 2.9
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.