Word Meanings - AVENGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose

Additional info about word: AVENGE

1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay. 2. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- To Avenge, Revenge. To avenge is to inflict punishment upon evil doers in behalf of ourselves, or others for whom we act; as, to avenge one's wrongs; to avenge the injuries of the suffering and innocent. It is to inflict pain for the sake of vindication, or retributive justice. To revenge is to inflict pain or injury for the indulgence of resentful and malicious feelings. The former may at times be a duty; the latter is one of the worst exhibitions of human character. I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another. C. J. Smith.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AVENGE)

• Requite
• Repay
• reward
• compensate
• recompense
• remunerate
• satisfy
• retaliate
• punish
• avenge
• revenge
• Retaliate
• Avenge
• retort
• repay
• requite

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AVENGE)

• Punish
• misrequite

Related words: (words related to AVENGE)

• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• RETALIATE
  To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated. Sir T. Herbert. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon
• AVENGERESS
  A female avenger. Spenser.
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• RETORTIVE
  Containing retort.
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• REWARDLESS
  Having, or affording, no reward.
• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• RETORTION
  Retaliation. Wharton. (more info) 1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton.
• AVENGEMENT
  The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. Milton.
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• AVENGER
  1. One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood. 2. One who takes vengeance. Milton.
• AVENGE
  1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• AVENGEFUL
  Vengeful. Spenser.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;
• PRETORTURE
  To torture beforehand. Fuller.
• FIREWARDEN
  An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.