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avenger
[ uh-ven-jer ]
noun
- a person who takes revenge for an offense:
They feel that by engaging in terrorism they become the avengers of a great wrong done to their people.
- a person who takes revenge on behalf of someone else:
In the film, Zorro sees himself as the avenger of the innocent.
Word History and Origins
Origin of avenger1
Example Sentences
Wanda has canonically been both an X-Men and an Avenger in the comics.
Kate has long dreamed of becoming an Avenger and always strives to find the noble path, even if that quest gets complicated.
The Skyborg system has been used to pilot an MQ-20 Avenger drone like this one.
The other teases out a future Avenger with a very dangerous weapon.
He could imagine himself an Islamist avenger like that masked monster in black who appears in the ISIS snuff videos.
But the avenger is held to a standard of precision in the retaliation he seeks.
Remember this guy—called himself the Southern Avenger, was photographed wearing a stars and bars superhero kind of mask?
Eating Fire: My Life As a Lesbian Avenger is published by University of Minnesota Press, $19.95.
Put before proper media scrutiny, the brash “Southern Avenger” is a shrinking violet.
They deceive themselves; we trust in God, who is the avenger of injustice; He will give us courage, and wisdom.
I am simply his friend, Alvarez Lazaro—his friend and his avenger!
There is no telling what the next move of this maniacal avenger will be.
A temple to Mars the avenger, if I had but a front of Illyrian horse!
And who is the swift "avenger of blood" who is following close as a sleuth-hound on thy track?
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