Both Uses
avenge
in
The Cask of Amontillado
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- At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk.†
avenged = took revenge
- It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
*avenger = someone who takes revenge for a perceived wrongeditor's notes: Unredressed is a synonym for unremedied or not paid back.
Definitions:
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(avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong
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(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.