avenger

[ uh-ven-jer ]

noun

1. 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.

2. 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

aveng(e) ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

Example Sentences

Wanda has canonically been both an X-Men and an Avenger in the comics.

From Time

Kate has long dreamed of becoming an Avenger and always strives to find the noble path, even if that quest gets complicated.

From Time

The Skyborg system has been used to pilot an MQ-20 Avenger drone like this one.

From Popular-Science

The other teases out a future Avenger with a very dangerous weapon.

From Vox

He could imagine himself an Islamist avenger like that masked monster in black who appears in the ISIS snuff videos.

From The Daily Beast

But the avenger is held to a standard of precision in the retaliation he seeks.

From The Daily Beast

Remember this guy—called himself the Southern Avenger, was photographed wearing a stars and bars superhero kind of mask?

From The Daily Beast

Eating Fire: My Life As a Lesbian Avenger is published by University of Minnesota Press, $19.95.

From The Daily Beast

Put before proper media scrutiny, the brash “Southern Avenger” is a shrinking violet.

From The Daily Beast

They deceive themselves; we trust in God, who is the avenger of injustice; He will give us courage, and wisdom.

From Project Gutenberg

I am simply his friend, Alvarez Lazaro—his friend and his avenger!

From Project Gutenberg

There is no telling what the next move of this maniacal avenger will be.

From Project Gutenberg

A temple to Mars the avenger, if I had but a front of Illyrian horse!

From Project Gutenberg

And who is the swift "avenger of blood" who is following close as a sleuth-hound on thy track?

From Project Gutenberg