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avengelate 14c., from Anglo-French avenger, Old French avengier, from a- "to" (see ad-) + vengier "take revenge" (Modern French venger), from Latin vindicare "to claim, avenge, puni [..]
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avengeTo take revenge for somebody else. So to avenge a friend who has been killed would be to kill his killer.
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avenge(v) take revenge for a perceived wrong
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avenge
A vengeance; a revenge.
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