avenge
verb (used with object)
to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for.
unavenged
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a word derived from
avenge.
Example Sentences
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Like many hard-core Twitter addicts, he seemed unable to log off, to let a grudge go unavenged or to filter himself in any way.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2022
It is a good thing that people who have languished in wounded humiliation, unheard and unavenged, have gotten to finally say what happened to them.
From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2018
So far, men like Jonasi Ruziga seem content to let loved ones go unavenged a while longer, hoping their restless ghosts are willing to wait as Rwanda struggles to rebuild from the ashes of genocide.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hundreds of small, unavenged humiliations which had been rising in me for months.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
I left home, with an oath, not to return thither unavenged," said be, "nor will I, though this time luck seems against me.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James
