All 17 Uses
avenge
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Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
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- On kin of Cain was the killing avenged by sovran God for slaughtered Abel.†
avenged = took revenge
- I' the waves I slew nicors {6a} by night, in need and peril avenging the Weders, {6b} whose woe they sought, —crushing the grim ones.†
*avenging = taking revenge
- 'Twas seen and told how an avenger survived the fiend, as was learned afar.†
avenger = someone who takes revenge
- And his mother now, gloomy and grim, would go that quest of sorrow, the death of her son to avenge.†
avenge = take revenge for
- The feud she avenged that yesternight, unyieldingly, Grendel in grimmest grasp thou killedst, —seeing how long these liegemen mine he ruined and ravaged.†
avenged = took revenge
- Now another comes, keen and cruel, her kin to avenge, faring far in feud of blood: so that many a thane shall think, who e'er sorrows in soul for that sharer of rings, this is hardest of heart-bales.†
avenge = take revenge for
- It beseems us better friends to avenge than fruitlessly mourn them.†
- On the hall-guest she hurled herself, hent her short sword, broad and brown-edged, {22b} the bairn to avenge, the sole-born son.†
- So avenged I their fiendish deeds death-fall of Danes, as was due and right.†
avenged = took revenge
- These all I avenged.†
- Dead was her son through war-hate of Weders; now, woman monstrous with fury fell a foeman she slew, avenged her offspring.†
- A feeless fight, {32b} and a fearful sin, horror to Hrethel; yet, hard as it was, unavenged must the atheling die!†
unavenged = 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.
- No way could he take to avenge on the slayer slaughter so foul; nor e'en could he harass that hero at all with loathing deed, though he loved him not.†
avenge = take revenge for
- Its watcher had killed one of a few, {40b} and the feud was avenged in woful fashion.†
avenged = took revenge
- {16h} That is, Finn would govern in all honor the few Danish warriors who were left, provided, of course, that none of them tried to renew the quarrel or avenge Hnaef their fallen lord.†
avenge = take revenge for
- Hrothgar leads up to his appeal and promise with a skillful and often effective description of the horrors which surround the monster's home and await the attempt of an avenging foe.†
avenging = taking revenge
- — The immediate provocation for Eofor in killing "the hoary Scylfing," Ongentheow, is that the latter has just struck Wulf down; but the king, Haethcyn, is also avenged by the blow.†
avenged = took revenge
Definitions:
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(1)
(avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong
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(2)
(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.