avenge
verb (used with object)
to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for.
are avenging
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present progressiveof avenge.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I don’t think that the agencies are avenging themselves against our proposals.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 6, 2011
"You are avenging yourself on me for yesterday's caprice," he muttered with an angry smile.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
But we must not, as Christians, allow ourselves for a moment to indulge in the idea that we are avenging the death or the wrongs of even the dearest of our relations or friends.”
From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor
But there are avenging furies that follow a man, even though the law does not reach him.
From Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler by Boggs, John, Elder
You have always called them brutes, you and Bouilhet, now they are avenging themselves on the dead and on the living.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel
