Definitions for avenge

avenge a·venge

Spelling: [uh-venj]
IPA: /əˈvɛndʒ/

Avenge is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in avenge (aeegnv).

Definitions for avenge

verb (used with object)

  1. to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for:
  2. to take vengeance on behalf of:
  3. to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for:
  4. to take vengeance on behalf of:

Origin of avenge

1325-75; Middle English avengen Old French avengier, equivalent to a- a-5 + vengier Latin vindicāre; see vindicate

Examples for avenge

Within days of 9/11 he was talking about a “crusade” to avenge the blow, without realizing how freighted that word was.

Then what could God do to avenge His honour and to have satisfaction rendered to Him?

Marius is a Roman soldier whose father is killed and he goes to avenge the death.

Now, 13 years later, Stan's little brother Matthew is back to avenge his death.

So I think that was personally felt too, my personal desire to avenge my own laziness and mistakes in life.

In the second, He assures us that God longs to avenge His elect speedily.

She thought that she had to avenge her husband, and had fixed the bayonet to her rifle.

But they were too late to avenge, as they had been too late to save.

Protestors chanted “with our blood and our souls, we will avenge you, oh martyr.”

To defend and avenge each other, is the deep feeling of all.

Within days of 9/11 he was talking about a “crusade” to avenge the blow, without realizing how freighted that word was.

Then what could God do to avenge His honour and to have satisfaction rendered to Him?

Marius is a Roman soldier whose father is killed and he goes to avenge the death.

Now, 13 years later, Stan's little brother Matthew is back to avenge his death.

So I think that was personally felt too, my personal desire to avenge my own laziness and mistakes in life.

In the second, He assures us that God longs to avenge His elect speedily.

She thought that she had to avenge her husband, and had fixed the bayonet to her rifle.

But they were too late to avenge, as they had been too late to save.

Protestors chanted “with our blood and our souls, we will avenge you, oh martyr.”

To defend and avenge each other, is the deep feeling of all.

Word Value for avenge
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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