Both Uses
avenge
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Not toward Europe as he had hoped, to help avenge his ravaged Czech homeland, but in the opposite direction: He joined the great swarm of young American men hastily assembled, trained, armed, and rushed west to stem the shocking Japanese onslaught in the Pacific.†
Chpt 4.avenge = take revenge for
- But up on the front lines, American boys were avenging these losses with a fury.†
Chpt 8. *avenging = taking revenge
Definitions:
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(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.