Avenge
Avenge ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old French avengier; Latin ad + vindicare to lay claim to, to avenge, revenge. See Vengeance.]
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.
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.
He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen.
2.
To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. [Obsolete]
Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies.
I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another.
Avenge , intransitive verb
To take vengeance.
Avenge , noun
Vengeance; revenge. [Obsolete] — Spenser