All 9 Uses
avenge
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Beowulf - (translated by: Ebbutt)
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- Grendel's Mother In the darkness of the night an avenger came to Heorot, came in silence and mystery as Grendel had done, with thoughts of murder and hatred raging in her heart.†
avenger = someone who takes revenge
- Grendel had gone home to die, but his mother, a fiend scarcely less terrible than her son, yet lived to avenge his death.†
avenge = take revenge for
- This is doubtless her vengeance for thy slaying of Grendel; he is dead, and his kinswoman has come to avenge him.†
- Better it is for each That he avenge his friend, than that he mourn him much.†
- The blood-stained tracks were easy to see, and the avengers moved on swiftly till they came to the edge of the mere, and there, with grief and horror, saw the head of Aschere lying on the bank.†
- I have avenged the crime, the death of the Danish folk, As it behoved me.†
*avenged = took revenge
- For three hundred winters he brooded over it unchallenged, and then one day a hunted fugitive, fleeing from the fury of an avenging chieftain, in like manner found the cave, and the dragon sleeping on his gold.†
avenging = taking revenge
- Great was our grief when Hathcyn, hunting in the forest, slew all unwittingly his elder brother: greater than ordinary sorrow, because we could not avenge him on the murderer!†
avenge = take revenge for
- Yet he alone avenged his people and conquered the fiend—I could help him but little in the fray, though I did what I could: all too few champions thronged round our hero when his need was sorest.†
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.