venge

[venj]

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

venged, venging 

1. to avenge.

venge

/ vɛndʒ /

verb

1. (tr) an archaic word for avenge

Word History and Origins

Origin of venge¹

1250–1300; Middle English vengen < Old French veng ( i ) er < Latin vindicāre; vindicate

Word History and Origins

Origin of venge¹

C13: from Old French venger, from Latin vindicāre; see _vindicate

Example Sentences

Kirk produces a lush, fruity new-style cabernet at Venge Vineyards.

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And the father-and-son duo of Nils and Kirk Venge, whose family name is synonymous with Napa Valley cabernet, make wines in different styles.

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With the exclamations they made as they carried out their atrocity — “Allahu Akbar!” and “On a vengé le prophète Mohamed, on a tué Charlie Hebdo!”

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At one end of the boulevard, propped next to an F1 car, is the £25,000 Specialized S-Works Venge bike ridden by Mark Cavendish in the 2011 Tour de France, which McLaren helped design.

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Ah! shades of Yarrell, Morris, Bewick, Wood, Swoop down from Nephelococcygian eyrie With legions of bird-phantoms, Roc-ghosts and spectral bantams, And venge the Vandal sporting-man's vagary, Wrought on your race in Cornwall's bay of Bude!

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Related Words

• avenge 
• get back at 
• vindicate