avengeverb [ T ]
uk/əˈvendʒ/us/əˈvendʒ/formalto do harm to or punish the person responsible for something bad done to you or your family or friends in order to achieve a fair situation:
He swore he would avenge his brother's death.
She determined to avenge herself on the killer.
At the end of the film, the murderer is killed by his victim's avenging girlfriend.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revenge and vengefulness
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- bite
- bite back (at sb/sth)
- don't get mad, get even idiom
- even
- get even with sb idiom
- hit
- mind
- own
- pay
- payback
- reprisal
- retaliate
- retaliatory
- revenge
- revenge is sweet idiom
- two can play at that game idiom
- vengeance
- vengeful
- vindictive
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avenger
noun [ C ] uk/əˈven.dʒər/us/əˈven.dʒɚ/
Russell Crowe stars as a grief-stricken avenger on the trail of his family's killers.