avenge
verb (used with object)
to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for.
is avenging
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present progressiveof avenge (3rd person singular).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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This time, instead of rescuing a daughter, as he did in “Taken” — the bellwether of this beloved or at least unavoidable subgenre — Neeson is avenging a son.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2019
Rogers is reluctant to help, since his sole aim is avenging a betrayal by the Royal Court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2016
In the former case it is avenging and pathetic satire; in the second case it is sportive, humorous, and mirthful satire.
From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller
The Socinians, Hobbes and some others do not admit this punitive justice, which properly speaking is avenging justice.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
I feel already that the faculty is avenging itself.
From The Imaginary Invalid by Charles Heron Wall
